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DESCEIPTIVE NOTES
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PAPUAN PLANTS,
BY
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INTEODUCTION.
The great Papuan Island, one of the largest of the globe, and
rivalling in extent with Britain, is as yet but very scantily known
to us merely along its coast-borders; and even of these litoral
tracts we know as yet but very imperfectly the nature of the
vegetation, while the plants of the higher regions — amply of
alpine elevation — remained hitherto utterly unknown to us. A
large island-country, probably rich also in endemic products of
2^1ants, situated on lines of Australian, Indian, Chinese and
Polynesian maritime intercourses and stretching moreover into
close proximity of the Australian Continent, must be to us here
of special importance for commerce and colonisation. Hence any
new; contribution, however scanty, towards the knowledge of the
nature and resources of New Guinea cannot but prove opportune,
particularly at a time when the settlement along the opposite
Australian coast is effected, and when by exploration-enterprises
it is endeavoured to withdraw the veil, which so long concealed
from us much of the features of this grand and wondrous island.
With this view it is intended to devote on this occasion a few
pages to the elucidation of some Papuan plants, brought from two
previously thus far unexamined localities by Mr. McLeay’s enter-
prising recent expedition, and gathered there by J. Reedy, a
horticultural emissary of Sir Will. Macarthur. The latter, who
in the autumn of a long laborious life, spent for the ^^astoral,
agricultural and industrial interest of Australia, still preserves
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INTRODUCTION.
a youthful ardour for scientific and especially horticultural re-
search^ has generously placed the material for the present essay
at my disposal. Connected records of New Guinean plants do
not as yet exist in phytographic literature. The field for special
work in this direction is therefore mostly untrodden, though the
extensive collections of Dr. Beccari, in whose treasures I am to
participate, are likely to give us early an ampler insight into the
probably very varied vegetation of New Guinea.
Its mountain flora particularly will likely carry with it the
charm of novelty, the true oaks already discovered being likely
only one of the numerous objects of promising interest. The
blending also of Australian forms, such as the Eucalypts, which
now have come to light, with Sundaic tyjoes of plants, will render
to an Australian naturalist the study of the Papuan vegetation
one of great significance, while undoubtedly thereby the means
will be suggested of transferring many new plants of economic
medicinal or industrial value to Australian shores.
Melbourne, November 1875,
PAPUAN PLANTS.
CAPPARIDE^.
Capparis quinifloea.
Cand. Prodr. i. 247 ; Benth. Plor. Austr, i. 94.
Ratau-River and Sue-Island.
The New G-ninea plant cannot be distingnished from the Australian
typical speciesj which is now known also from Castlereagh’s Bay and
Melville’s Bay, If C. subcordata (Spanoghe in Schlecht. Liniijea xv.
166) from Timor should prove conspecific, as may he assumed from the
short description, then our plant has probably a wide range through the
Indian Archipelagus, Habit climbing. The petioles extend sometimes
to the length of I inch. The stipidar spines are rarely present in the
upper part of the plant and then very short and recurved ; but the lower
branches are often strongly thorny. The pedicels occur from 2 to 7
in a cluster. The fruit assumes sometimes an oval shape. Cleome
viscosa (L. Sp, PI. 672, edit, secund, 938), which probably is to be found
as commonly in New Gruinea as in North Australia and South Asia, has
as' yet not been recorded specially from New Guinea, so far as I am
aware, perhaps because this herb is of wide tropical distribution in the
eastern hemisphere. In De Candolle’s great leading work and in most
’other phytographic publications only the second edition of Linne’s
Species Plantarum, published 1762-1763, Is quoted for this and all other
earlier Linnean plants, whereas the first edition of this ever memorable
foundation-work of universal phytography was issued already in l7o3
with pagings very different to those of the second edition or of the third
edition, which latter was published at Vienne in 1764 and is indeed
merely a reprint of the second Stockholm issue.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants^
MELIACE^.
AgLAIA ELiEAGNOIDEA.
Benth. Flor. Austral, i. 383.
Eatau-Rivei*.
Miquel (Annal. Miis. Bot. Lugd, Batav. vol. i. part ii.) adduces the
subsequent Meliacese from New Guinea :
Dysoxjlon caulostachyum, Miq. 1. c. 12.
Dysoxylon lasiocarpum^ Miq. 1. c. 13.
Dysoxylon Kunthianum, Miq. 1. c. 13.
Dysoxylon amooroides, Miq. 1. c. 16,
Dysoxylon mollej Miq. 1. c.
Aglaiopsis glaucescens, Miq. 1. c. 58.
Carapa Moluccensis, Lam. Diet. i. 621 ; Miq. 1. c. 62, Besides four
species of Aglaia requiring comparison with A. elceagnoidea.
Heritiera litoralis.
Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 546.
Eatau-Kiver and coast opposite Yule-Island.
TILIACE.^.
ELAiOCARPUS Arnhemicus.
F. M, Report for the Intercol. Exhib. of 1867, p. 24 ; E. obovatus var. foveolata,
Benth. Flor. Austr. i. 281.
Yule-Island.
Eeedy’s only flowering specimen is referred here with doubt ; the
leafstalks are conspicuously longer, and the fruit when obtained would
need comparison. The typical E. obovatus has the petioles extremely
short, the leaves smaller, particulaidy narrower and attenuated gradually
into a cuneate base, their denticulations are rather less acute and'
numerous, the fringes of the»petals seem fewer and therefore broader,
the anthers are slightly downy not smooth, the ovary is glabrous not
somewhat silky. The fruits of all three plants may be different ; that of
E. Arnhemicus is twice or thrice as large as that of E. obovatus. To
the latter species belongs unquestionably E. parviflorus (A, Eich. Voy.
d’Astrolabe, Botaniq. pp, 67-69, t, 24), although Delile’s drawing
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
exhibits the anthers miicronate, such as are not normal in the genuine
plant. I have not recognised the Papuan species among Indian and
Polynesian plants known to me, but the nearest allied are Elseocarpus
amcenus (Thwait. Enum. of Zeil. Plants, 38), E. longifolius (Blum, Bijdr.
p. 120), E. rotundifolius (Brogn, et Gris in Annal. des Scienc. Nat. 1864,
p, 356), and E. laurifolius (A. Gray Bot, of Wilk. Exped. 203).
EUPHORBIACEAil.
Mappa tanaria.
J. Muell. in Cand. Prodr. xv. sect. ii. 997.
Mainland opposite Darnley-Island and Yule-Island.
In Miquel’s Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. the two following Euphor-
hiaceous plants are mentioned from New Guinea :
Mallotus tili^folius, J. Muell. in Schlechtend. Linnsea xxxiv. 190,
Alchornea Javensis, J. Muell. 1. c. 170.
In the extensive and elaborate disquisition of this great order of plants
in De Candolle’s Prodromus vol. xv. sect. ii. no special record of any
Euphorbiaceous plants from New Guinea seems to occur, though nume-
rous genera and species may be expected to exist there.
RHAMNACE^.
Colubrina Asiatica.
Ii. C. Eichard. et Brogniart in Annal. des Scienc. Natur. x, 368, t. 15, f. 3.
Ratau-River and Sue-Island.
LEGUMINOS^.
Tephrosia purpurea.
Persoon Synops. Plant, ii. 329.
Mainland opposite Darnley-Island and Yule-Island,
Miquel (Flor. Ind. Batav. vol. i.) enumerates the following plants of
this order from New Guinea :
Desmodium dependens, Blume in Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. 248. To this
in all probability belongs D. pendulum, Tyesm. sec, F. M. in Campb.
New. Hebrid. p. 9.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Abrus precatorius, L. Sjst. Veg. ed. xii. 472.
Pongamia volubilis, ZolL et Mor. Yerzeichn. p. 3.
Derris iiliginosa, Bentli. in Plant. Jimglinlm. i. 252.
Derris Timorensis, Blume in Miq. Flor. lud. Batav. i. 138.
Dalbergia monosperma, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Miscell. ii. 36.
Dalbergia densa, Benth. in Ilook. Loud. Journ. of Bot. ii. 237.
Guilandina Bonduc, L. Sp. PL 381,
Cassia mimosoides, L. Sp. PI. 379.
Cassia So^^bera, L. Sp. PI. 379.
Afzelia Ainboinensis, Benth. et J. Hook. Gener. Plant, i. 580.
Bauhinia ferniginea, Roxb. Flor. Indie, ii. 331.
Albizzia rotundata, Blume in Miq. Flor. Ind. Batav. i. 20.
Albizzia saponaria, Blume in Miq. Flor. Ind. Batav. i, 19.
Plants of almost universal range through the intratropical I'egions of
the eastern hemisphere, such as species of Crotalaria, Indigofera, JEschy-
nomene, Zoriiia, Desmodium, LTraria, Flemingia, Lespedeza, Sesbania,
Canavallia, Phaseolus, Rhynchosia, Sophora, are not specially mentioned
in Miquel’s work from New Guinea, as their wide distribution would not
call for annotations of localities.
MYRTACE^E.
Eucalyptus Papuana.
(Sect. Leiophloice.)
Brancblets towards the summit slightly angular; leaves scattered,
short-petioled, chartaceous, obloug-lanceolar, dull green, hardly oblique ;
their lateral veins fine, numerous, very patent; their longitudinal vein
close to the margin; the oildots exceedingly minute, almost obliterated;
peduncles axillary, short, slendei’, bearing an umbel or a cymous corymb
of but few flowers; calyx rather small, pearshaped, without angules,
borne on a slender pedicel of nearly the same length; the lid patellar,
several times shorter than the tube, almost membranous, not pointed;
anthers narrow-oblong, their parallel cells opening longitudinally
tlnoughout ; fruit hemiellipsoid, its margin thin, long surpassing the
valves; style only by its summit exserted; stigma not dilated; vertex
of the capsule flat ; seeds wingless.
On the mainland of New Guinea opposite to Yule-Island, about twelve
miles distant from the shores.
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Descrijitive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Branchlets thin. Petioles long. Leaves 3-5" long, not shining.
Umbels deflexed. Whole calyx 3-4'" long. Fruit nearly long, about
A" wide.
The species seems distinct from E. clavigera in longer and narrower
leaves with less prominent veins, in thinner petioles, in less numerous
flowers on shorter pedicels, and perhaps in the form of the fruit. The
discrimination of the likewise closely allied E. tesselaris is less difficult.
The occasion is afforded of alluding here to the characteristics of the
very few congeners properly known from beyond Australia. E. alba
has the leaves nearly equilateral, the almost hemispherical calyx-lid
protracted into an umbonate apex, the capsules 3-4 celled, the valves
barely semiexserted and the seeds wingless. The identity ot E. tectifica
with E. alba is not yet established beyond doubt.
E. Decaisneana, aecordiiig to Timor specimens kindly sent by Dr.
Scheffer, the Director of the Botanic Garden of Java, belongs to the
series Normales, not to the Eenanthera3 ; its leaves are more or less
conspicuously inEequilateral ; the margin of the calyx-tube is somewhat
protruding beyond the vertex of the capsule at least in a young state.
The collection transmitted by Sir Will. Macarthur contains the leaves
of another Papuan species found along with E. Papuana, to all appear-
ance belonging to this genus, and in foliage similar to E. platyphylla.
This would indicate another extra-australian Eucalypt irrespective of
E. raoluccana and E. multiflora, if these should really prove congeners.
BaRRINGTONIA 8PECIOSA.
R. and G. Forster Char. Genr. 76, t. 38.
Ratau-River.
Of this the fruit only occurs in the collection, but doubtless it belongs
to this species.
Among Myrtacese the following are specially recorded from New
Guinea :
Melaleuca Leucadendron, L. Mantissa Plant. 105,
Eugenia Blumei (Jambosa ovalifolia, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. 98),
Eugenia lancifolia, Miq. Annal, Ind. i. 17, (Jambosa auriculata, Bl.
1. c. 104).
Eugenia Benthami (Syzygium nitidum, Beuth. in Hook. Loud, Journ.
of Bot. ii. 221).
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Eugenia litoralis, Bentli. et J. Hook. Gen, Plant. 719. (Jossinia lito-
ralis, Bl. Mus. Bot. Engd. i. 124).
Mjrtus laxiflora (Nelitris laxiflora, Bl. 1. c. 74).
Myrtus Coriandri (Nelitris Coriandri, Bl. 1. c. 74).
Ehodamnia glauca, Bl. 1. c. 79.
Yast additions to the plants of this order may be expected from the
forest-mountains of New Guinea.
SANTALACEiE.
Exocaepus latifolia.
R. Br. Prodr. Flor. Not. Holl. 356.
Ratau-River and Yule-Island.
RUBIACE^.
SCYPHIPHORA HTDROPHYLACEA.
Gaertn. de Pruct. iii. 91, t. 196.
Ratau-River.
The collection contains also the leaves of a Morinda, probably M.
citrifolia, of Myrmecodia echinata, Plydnophytum formicarum and
several other rubiaceous plants. Miquel (Flora Ind. Batav. vol. ii. et
Annal. vol. iv.) noticed from Papua :
Saprosma arborea, Bl, Bijdr. 957.
Uncaria appendiculata, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. of Bot, ii. 222.
Morinda gemella, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 247.
Morinda glomerata, Miq. 1. c. 247.
Coelospermum scandens, Bl. Bijdr. 994.
Pavetta Rothiana, Cand. Prodr. iv. 491.
Pavetta Zippeliana, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd, iv. 201.
Coffea Novo-Guineensis, Miq. 1. c. iv. 259.
COMPOSITE.
Pluchea Indica.
Lessing in Schleclitend. Linnsea, 1831, p. 150,
Ratau-River, A new Australian locality for this plant is Port
Darwin.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
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PEDALINEiE.
JOSBPHINIA GKANDIFLORA.
R, Br. Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. p. 520.
Ratau-Eiverj Yule-Island and other islands close to New Guinea.
ASPERIFOLIiE.
Tournefortia argentea.
Linn. Pil. Suppl. Plant. 133,
Ratau-River, Yule-Island and on some of the Straits-Islands.
Tournefortia sarmentosa.
Lam. Illustr. 1877.
Mainland opposite Yule-Island and Darnley-Island.
OLEACE.^,
Jasminum didymum.
G. Porst. Ploml. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 3.
Mainland abreast of Yule-Island.
J, rupestre, Blume Mus, Bot. Lugd. i. 280, from New Guinea may-
be perhaps a form of Forster’s plant, as far as from description can be
judged, the var. contracta mediating the transit.
Visiania undulata, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 548, I’ccorded from New
Guinea, may be referable to Olea; its fruit seems unknown.
VERBENACE^.
Clerodendron inerhe,
R. Br. Prodr, 511, et in W. T. Ait. Hort. Kew, sec. edit. vol. iv, 65.
Ratau-River.
VlTEX TRIFOLTA.
L. fil. Suppl. Pl. 293.
Ratau-River; the unifoliolate variety; also on various of the smaller
islands.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Premxa integrifolia.
Liniie Mantiss. i’lant. 252.
Ratau-River and Straits-Islands.
The leaves of a Callicarpa are also contained in the collection.
ASCLEPIADE^.
Dischidia nummularia,
R. Br. Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. 461.
The specimens from New Guinea are flowerless, but appear to pertain
to this species.
Dischidia Timorensis.
Decaisne in Nouv. Annal du Mus. 377, t. 17.
To this seems to belong a species with ascidia from New Guinea and
which extends to North-East Australia, but of which the flowers have
on neither place as yet been obtained,
Asclepiadese specially mentioned already from New Guinea are:
Dischidia ovata, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1843, p. 226.
Dischidia peltata, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 148.
Gymnema recurvifoiium, Bl. 1, c, 150.
Pterostelma albiflorum, Bl. in Rumphia, iv. 33, t. 188.
Iloya purpurea, Bl. in Rumph. iv. 30, t. 182.
Iloya globulifera, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 44.
Iloya pruinosa, Miq. El. Ind. Bat, ii. 525.
ACANTHACEiE.
Acanthus ilicifolius.
L. Sp. PI. 639.
Ratau-River.
CASUARINEiE.
Casuarina equisetifolia.
R. et G. Porst. Charact. Gen 103, t. 52.
Cocoa-nut Island.
Jh scrrplive Xotes on Papuan Plants,
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SClTAMlNEil].
Tapetnocheilos pungens.
Miq. Annal. Mus. Lngd. iv. 101-102, t. 4.
Rataii-River. The Rev. Mr. Macfjirlaiie oliBerved it on the Baxter’s
River, lately explored in the Ellen Gowan, Mi\ Fitzalan found recently
this magniticent plant on the Daintree-River, and furthermore it has
now also become known from the vicinity of Cape York. It was first for
Australia identified in the Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. viii. 26, where also a
short note on the fruit was given.
Reedy’s collection contains also plants of the genera Cupania, Calo-
phylliim, Seinecarpus, Dysoxylon, Pittosporum, Acacia (phyllodineous),
Panax, Clardenia, Sctevola, Achras, Ficus, Cycas, Licuala, but not in
a state to determine their precise specific position. To facilitate a jire-
liminary insight into tlie vegetation of New Griiinea, as far as hitherto
known, it may he added, chiefly from Blame’s and Miqnel’s writings,
that there the following genera have representatives :
Wormia, Nymphtea, Anamirta, Chlainandra, Stephania, Pyrnarrhena,
Myristica, Polyaltliia, Popowia, Orophea, Gouiotbalamus, Artabotrys,
Opilla, Cardiopteris, Lasiantbera, Triphasia, Mclanococca, Ancistrocla-
dus, Anisoptera, Sapiudns, Nephelinm, Jn^gera, Ilarpnllia, Allophylus,
Dodonasa, Odina, Mangifera, Cjinarium, Gahopliylliim, Polygala, Sau-
rauja, Tristellateia, Loea, Vitis, Ivieinhovia, Melocliia, Sponia, Celtis,
Gironniera, Fleurya, Procris, Bochmeria., Cypliolopluis, Eriocnide, Strel>-
lus. Nepenthes, Cbavica, Polygonum, Cyathula, Gompbrena, Liquidam-
bar, Rhizophora, Kandelia, Ceriops, Lumnitzera, Osbeckia, Medinilla,
Memecylon, Cinnamomum, Tetrautbera, Litsa?a,, Salacia, TTip2-)ocratea,
Casearia,Trevesia, Ilejitaplourum, Tetraplasamira, Gastonia, Osmoxylon,
Lonicera, Viseum, Geniostoma, Fagraui, Clicetosus, Neuburgia, Kopsia,
Pseudochrosia, Tccoma, -ZEgicoras, Clirysophyllum, Maba, Gnetuin,
Podocarpns, Areca, Kcntia, Orania, Ptychospenna, Caryota, Licuala,
Cocos, Korthalsia, Calamus, Dtemouorojjs, Metroxylon, Nipa, Musa,
Freycenetia, Forrostia, Disocorea, AI}>iuia, Cadetia, Sarcojmdium, Podo-
chilus, Appeiulicula, Cbeirostylis, lleta?ria (Blinne Bijdi\ p. 410, but not
Iletairia, Endl. Gen. Plant, p. 133, winch I Imvo changed to Pritzeiia),
Apostasia, Xenojihya, Rhaphidophora, Pothos, Cryptocoryue, Amorj>ho-
jihalliis, Centhotheca, Oleandra, Grammitis, Vittaria.
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Descripfim Notes on Papimn Plants,
ORCIIIDEiE.
Dendrobium antennatum.
Lindley in Hooker’s London Journal of Botany 1843, p. 236 ; Bentham Botany of
the voyage of H.M. Ship Sulphur, 1844, t. 59.
Glabrous ; leaves alternate, coriaceons, lanceolate, not keeled ; flowers
several in tlio raceme, greenisb yellow; inner sepals tidce as long as
the outer ones narrow lanceolate-linear; lateral sepals broadly falcate-
seinilanceolar, several times longer than the conical-cylindric spur;
lahellum as long as the outer sepals; its terminal lobe roundish-rhom-
boid short-acuminate or simply acute, about half as long as the rest of
the lahellum ; the lateral lobes blunt or rather acute, the whole greenish-
yellow and streaked with ptxrple veins, the thickened axis towards the
base and towards the junction of the upper lobe raised into two thin
plates; the two outer of the three streaks of the upper lobe laminar
towards the base ; column several times shorter than the labellura ;
capsule fusiform-ovate, large, the three outer valves forming broad
longitudinal bauds free and overlapping at their margins.
New Gxxinea; Hinds.
This orchid, though not contained in Sir Will. Macarthur’s sending,
is here inserted, as the writer had an opportunity of examining a living
plant brought from the Duke of York’s Island (between New Ireland
and New Britain) by Mr. C. Walter, who while under engagements
of tlie young ornithologist, Baron A. von Ilucgel, accompanied the
Rev. Mr. Brown, of the Wesleyan missions, in his recent voyage, and
obtained also on York’s Island the rare Ba?a Commersoni (R. Br. in
Horsf. Plant. Jav. Rar. p. 120) and Coccoloba platyclada (F, M. in
Hook. Bot. Magaz. 5382).
The leaves and particularly the flowers of our specimen are rather
smaller than those of D. Tokai ; the sepals are much more unequal, not
of a pure yellow ; the labellurn is not white and the spur much thinner,
while the upper not the lower portion of the lahellum is the shortest.
D. macranthum from Vanicoro is still more distant. The extension of
the inner bcyon<l the outer sepals occurs however in D, Mirbelianum,
(Gaudichaud Botuni(pie, Freyccnet Voyage an tour du Monde, pi. 38),
which together with D. veratrifolium, D. bilobum, Saccolabium fascicu-
latum and Vanda Iliiidsii was noticed by Lindley from Hinds’s New
Guinea collection. Dendrobium tridentiferum and D. bifalce and Sacco-
Desc7iptive Notes on Pajman Plants. 15
labium quinquefiduiii ( Lindl. in Hook. Lend. Journ. ii. 236 and 237)
recorded also from Hinds’s gatherings but -without locality, may also
have come from New Guinea. Miquel (FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 644 et 645)
after Blume mentions from thence D. atropurpureum and D. spectabile.
Neither Australian nor Papuan specimens of D. Johannis (G. Reichenb,
in the Gardn. Chronicle I860, p. 890; Xenia Orch. ii. 165; Hook. Bot.
Mag. 5540 ; Benth. Flor. Austr, vi. 279) have been seen by the writer,
but Sir Will. Macarthur transmits now this plant from Hammond’s
Island of the Solomon-Group.
FILICES.
POLYPOmUM PUNCTATUM.
Tliunberg Elor. Japon. 337.
Mainland of New Guinea.
P. ferrugineum (Baker in Hooker’s Synops. Filic, 318) occurs in
Zipx^elius’s Collection of New Guinea Plants. P. stigmosum (Swartz
Synops. Filic. 29 et 226) is likewise mentioned specially as a Papuan
fern by Baker.
Aspidium molle.
S"vrartz Synops. Eilic. 49.
Mainland of New Guinea.
A. Menyanthidis (Presl. Reliquiae Elfenk. i. 28; A. pachyphyllum,
Kunze in der Bot. Zeitung vi. 259) is recorded from New Guinea by
Sir Will. Hooker (Spec, Filic. iv. 56).
AdIANTUM iEXHIOPICUM.
L. Sp. Plant, edit, seennd. 1560.
Mainland of New Guinea,
This species was not distinguished by Liime when he wrote the
first edition of his famous foundation-work for species.
AsPLENIUM LASERPITirOLIUM.
Lam. Encycl. Methodiq. i. 310 (1783).
Ratau-River and coast opposite Yule-Island. Dr. Hinds brought
from New Guinea A. scandens (J. Sm. in Hook. Spec, Filic. iii, 216).
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Descriptive Notes on Papnan Plants,
AsrLENlUM FALCAXUM.
Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. 306.
Eatau-River.
Pteris longifolia.
L. Sp. PI. 1074 (edit. prim, anno 1753).
Yule-Island.
Pteris tripartita.
Swartz Synops. Pilic. 100 et 293.
Darnley-Island.
In the damp jungles of New Guinea numerous species of this and
other large genera of ferns must occur, the commoner species of which
would not always be recorded in general works from any particular
regions such as those of Papua.
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPUAN
PLANTS,
BY
BARON FERD. VON MUELLER, C.M.G, M. & PILD., F.R.S.
The main material for this second publication on New Guinean
plants was placed disinterestedly at my disposal by the Reverend
S. Macfarlane, who some months ago explored the Baxter- and
Fly-River, with a view of carrying the blessings of Christianity
gradually to the heathens in the recesses of the great Papuan
Island. While these pages were under preparation I received
also from Dr. Scheffer of Java the first portion of the yet
unpublished ^^Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg,” a
periodical thoughtfully commenced this year, and such one as
each great phytologic institution for the records of its reasearches
ought to possess. Dr. Scheffer’s first essay in these promising
annals dwells on Mr. Teysmann’s plants gathered on the north-
west coast of New Guinea, from which part also some records —
though hitherto much overlooked — are extant already in the
volume published by Achille Richard, from 1832 to 1834, on the
botanic collections secured during the discovery-voyages of
Admiral Jules Dumont d’Urville, in the corvette Astrolabe,
So far as cursorily the opportunity was afforded me in the
B
18 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
present pages, I have alluded to this scattered material with a
desire, to facilitate therehy reference to the literature concerning
New Guinea plants. As far as yet can he judged from the
rather limited collections, which hitherto could be formed by
collateral unaided exertions of the missionaries, the vegetation
in the south-eastern part of the great island assumes a very
different aspect to that of the north-west, a,s there revealed by
(he Frencli and particularly by the Dutch naturalist. Sundaic
forms seem to prodominiite in the regions facing the Moluccas
;uk1 r]iilip])ine-lslamls almost to the exclusion of others, tliougli
rlie very recent discovery of an Araucaria on Mount Arfak by
the illustrious Dr. Beccari introduces also there already a partly
Australian type into the almost Moluccan vegetation. The case
in the south-east of New Guinea appears to be decidedly different;
there pure Australian forms arc at least to a small degree mixed
into the Malayan vegetation, which latter flourishes also exten-
sively in Northern and in tropical Eastern Australia. The
occurrence of a Banksia and phyllodinous Acacia, together with
Eucalypts, establishes clearly a close alliance of one 2 >ortion of
the jdants of the south-eastern regions with tliat of Australian
j)hy8iognomy. How far this somewhat enigmatic distribution of
genera and even of species — thouglit to be endemically Australian
— can be explained perha])s by geologic considerations, we have as
yet no moans of ascertaining. Of still higher interest than this
question remains the investigation of the sub-alpine and glacier-
flora throughout the wide chains of the lofty Papuan mountains.
e are utterly unacquainted yet with any plants from the Snowy
Mountains there, though their comi^arison with the alpine forms
of vegetable life occurring in the icy highlands of Australia
ex])lored by myself, of Tasmania and New Zealand mainly
described by Dr. Hooker, as well as their collation on the other
hand with the largely peculiar vegetation of the higher zones of
the Himalaian ranges and of any al^jine mountains of the large
islands in the Indian Archij)elagus, will likely lead to manifold
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Descfiptive Notes on Papuan P lants,
philosophic contemplationSj far more important for a comprehen-
sive history of our glohe, than the absolute specific elucidation
of the vegetative forms themselves. In my concluding these
introductory words it is but just to express my. gratitude to the
Hon. Sir Jam. McCulloch, the Premier of the Victorian Ministry,
and to the Hon. J. A. MacPherson, the Chief Secretary, for per-
mitting the issue of these records on the Papuan plants as official
documents in connection with our phytographic museum.
It is also gratifying to add, that the reverend gentleman, who
generously contributed the material for this second treatise, has
declared his intention, to secure likewise during his future mis-
sionary voyages and travels, with the aid of his reverend brethren,
new material for the progressive elucidation of the Papuan Plora ;
while the distinguished zoologist. Signor d’ Albertis, through the
friendly mediation of the learned physician and naturalist, Dr.
G. Bennett, has expressed his willingness, to devote during his
most promising new traversings in the east of Papua also some
of his precious time there to the formation of phytologic collec-
tions with a view of rendering such accessible to myself ; and thus
we may trust, that Australia may share in the honor of shedding
extensively light on the vegetable products — some perhaps of
undreamed value — which emanate solely from the secluded main-
haunts of the Birds of Paradise.
Melbourne, 7th April 1876,
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
DILLENIACEiE.
WORMIA ALATA.
R. Br. in Cand. Regn. Veget. Syst, Nat, i. 434.
Baxter’s Eiver; Kev. S. Macfarlane.
In Australia this noble tree extends southward at least as far as
liockingham’s Bay. Height up to 60 feet. The bark is outside thinly
lamellar, inside red ; the wood rather soft. The leaves attain a length
over 1 foot. The petals are yellow.
The only other Dilleniaceous plant as yet on record from New Guinea
is Wormia castaneifolia, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. iv. 78.
NEPENTHACE^.
Nepenthes Kennedyi.
F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. v. 154.
Baxter’s River j Rev. S. Macfarlane.
The identification of the Papuan with the Australian plant remains
uncertain, as of neither flowers or fruit are as yet known. The Papuan
specimens, like some gathered by Mr. C. Moore at Cape Sidmouth, are
slightly downy. The fact however that also in New Guinea this
pitcher-plant is associated with Tapeinocheilos pungens, seems to speak
for the correctness of the identification.
N. phyllamphora, Willd. Sp. PL iv. ii. 874, to which our plant seems
allied, has been gathered by Mr. Teysmann in New Guinea, according to
Blume ; it is thus quoted by Dr, Hooker in his masterly review of the
Nepenthacece for De Candolle’s Prodr. vol. xvii. 90-105. Most likely
the Papuan Mountains will furnish yet many kinds of pitcher-plants.
STERCULIACE^.
Helicteres angustifolia.
Linne Spec. Plant. 963.
Baxter’s River ^ Rev. S. Macfarlane.
The section Methorium, to which this species belongs, might well
again be raised to generic rank. H. semiglabra, from tropical East
Australia, seems merely a variety with shorter and woolly fruits.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Other Sterculiacese known from New Guinea are :
Commersonia echinata, R. et G. Forst. Charact. Gener. 43^ t. 22.
Abroma fastuosa, Gsertn. de Fructib. t. 64.
Kleinhovia hospita, Linn, Spec. Plant, edit. sec. 1365.
Melochia Indica^ A. Gray in Wilk. Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped. 93
(Visenia Indica, Houtt. Syst. 287, t. 46).
SAPINDACE^.
Dodon^a viscosa.
Linne Mantissa Plantarum 238.
Baxter^s River * Rev. S. Macfarlane.
The form, specifically distinguished by De Candolle (Prodr. i. 616)
as D. Burmanniana.
Nephelium ferrugineum.
Spanoghea ferruginea, Blume in Rumphia, iii. 173.
Fly-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane,
The desirability of uniting Spanoghea with Nephelium has been
pointed out already in 1859, on the occasion when I described some
Australian species, in the transactions of the Phil. Institute of Victoria,
iii. 25 and 26.
Other Sapindaceae, already recorded from New Guinea, are :
Sapindus cuspidatus, Bl. Rumphia, iii, 97.
Nephelium Diplocardia (Irina Diplocardia, Bl. Rumphia, iii, 115).
Jsegera speciosa, BL Rumphia, iii. 155.
Cupania Zippeliana, BL Rumphia, iii, 160.
Cupania obtusa, Miq, FL Ind. Batav, i. part ii. 567.
Harpulia rupestris, BL Rumphia, iii. 175.
Harpulia cupanoides, Roxb. Hort. Bengal, 86.
Allophylus Sundanus, Miq, FL Ind. Bat. i. part ii. 575.
Allophylus Cobbe, BL Rumph. iii. 131.
EUPHORBIACEiE.
Macaranga aleuritoides.
Stipules very long, connate into a cylinder, gradually pointed, as well
as the branchlets tomentellous and besides covered with soft appressed
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Descriptive Notes 07i Papuan Plants.
hair ] leaves large, ^fixed at the basal extremity, co^^date-orbieulate, cleft
to one-third or less into three lobes, above almost g-labroixs, beneath
short-pubescent and conspersed with very minute glands, the three
primary nerves arising from the base of the leaves ; capsules three-celled,
glandular-pulverulent and beset with rather long hardly rigid echinular
excrescences.
On the Fly-River ; Rev, S. Macfarlane.
Branchlets thick, distantly marked by the annular scars left by the
stipules. The latter nearly 3 inches long, reminding of those of many
Ficua-species, consisting of a single piece, membranous in texture.
Leaves on rather long cylindrical strong petioles, so far as seen from a
span to a foot long and nearly as broad, irrespective of the two anterior
incisions only minutely denticulate, above shining, beneath opaque ;
their primary as well as the pinnately disj)osed secondary nerves very
prominent beneath ; their primary veins parallel, transverse and beneath
also prominulous ; the secondary veins parallel-longitudinal, connected
by reticulating veinlets, thus the main-venation rendered almost can-
cellate. Flowers unknown. Fruits with turgid cells, nearly half an
inch high j the endocarp seceding. Seeds roundish, somewhat verru-
cular, without any arillus ; testa crustaceous ; embryo and albumen not
observable in the obtained seeds.
The large stipules place this species near M. stipulosa, M. hispida and
M. longistipulata. From the first of these three our plant ditfers ah-eady
in the basifixed therefore not peltate leaves ; from M. hispida, according
to a typic specimen kindly sent by Mr. S. Kurz, M. aleuritoides is easily
separated by the closely downy and hairy branchlets petioles and pe-
duncles, by the beneath pale and not almost glabrous but lobed leaves,
with more prominent veins, yet without any very visible and copious
glandular impressions, and with a far less waved margin, also by the
more hairy fruit with thicker excrescences. Ag'ain from M. lotigistipulata
the new Papuan species recedes on account of its stout branchlets, its
long stalked not strictly penni-nerved but rather palmati-nerved leaves,
which moreover so far as known are never lobeless, nor ovate-lanceolar,
nor beneath densely impressed with glands, and further in capsules
much larger than those described of M. longistipulata. The structure
of the flowers, when they become known, will likely reveal further
diagnostic diflerences yet, to distinguish this from the several allied
species.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 23
PhYLLANTHUS BUXIFOLIUS.
Reinwardt in Blume’s Catalogus van eenige ge-vvassen in’s Lands Plantentuin te
Buitenzorg, 1823, p. 106,
On Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
The specimens from this large stream as well as others, gathered by
Mr. Fitzalan in Lieut. Smith’s exploration of the mstuary of the River
Burdekin, are not in fruit, but otherwise accord fullv with Javanese
specimens, marked as a new species of Scepasma in Zollinger’s collection.
Miquel already (Flora Indise Batavje i. p. ii. 379) gives the measurement
of the leaves as ranging from J to 1 inch.
Dr. Scheffer (Annal. Hort. Bot. Buitenzorg, 1876, p. 48) adds the
two following Euphorbiaceae for New Guinea :
Alchornea Javensis, J. Miill. in Linnsea xxxiv. 170.
Mallotus tiliifolius, J, Mull. 1. c. 190.
Ach. Richard records : Euphorbia pilulifera, L. amoen. acad. iii, 114.
LEGUMINOSJ5.
Cassia Javanica.
Linue Spec. Plant. 379.
On the Fly-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
For the identification of this Papuan Cassia I have relied on Wight’s
drawing, published in the leones Plant. Indise, t. 252, in the absence of
original specimens. The plant, brought by the zealous missionary, was
not in fi'uit ; leaves and flowers however agree with the illustration
quoted, but the more decidedly renate stipules point towards C. mega-
lantha (Decaisn. Annal. du Mus. 136). The range of variability of these
Cassias, known to be very wide in some Australian species, is as yet not
sufficiently ascertained. Bentham, in his full monography of this large
genus (Transact, of the Linnean Society of London xxvii. 517), lays
stress on veinless petals for the diagnosis of C. Javanica in contrast to
some species from tropical Africa j but in the delineation quoted above,
and seemingly emanating from Roxburgh, the petals are strongly veined,
and so they are also in our Papuan plant. The color of the flowers
distinguish this magnificent Cassia from all hitherto-known Australian
species; still perhaps this, like so many other Malayan and Papuan
plants, may also stretch across to the little explored jungles of North-
East Australia.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Dr. Scheffer enumerates additionally the following plants of this order
as inhabitants of New Guinea :
Phylacium bracteosum^ Bennett in Horsfield’s Plant. Javan. Rarior.
p. 159, t. 23.
Mucuna Novo-Guineensis, Scheff. Annal. Hort. Buitenzorg, 1876, p. 9.
Remarkable for brilliantly orange-colored flowers,
Derris scandens, Benth. Synops, Dalberg, p. 103.
Csesaljnnia (Guilandina) Bonducella, Fleming in Asiat. Res. 11, 159.
Bauhinia Teysmanniana, Scheff. 1. c. p. 10. This may be the species
recorded by Bentham as B. ferruginea.
Afzelia bijuga, A. Gray, Bot. of Wilk. Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped.
467, t. 51, Identified by Dr. Scheffer with Intsia Amboinensis, thus
widely a representative of the tropic maritime vegetation in the eastern
hemisphere and as such extending also, as now for the first time shown,
to the northern parts of Queensland.
Maniltoa grandiflora, Scheff. 1. c. 20, Regarded as closely allied to
Cynometra grandiflora, A. Gr. 1. c. 470, t, 52.
Albizzia sessilis (Pithecolobium sessile, Scheff. 1. c. p. 22).
Albizzia Papuana (Pithecolobium Papuanum, Scheff. 1. c, p. 22).
Acacia pseudo-arabica, Blume in Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 8 . The dis-
tinctive characters, by which this can be separated from A, Arabica or
perhaps A. Seyal, need yet to be pointed out more clearly.
Acacia Simsii.
All. Cunningham in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. i. 368.
On the Baxter’s River 5 Rev. S. Macfaidane.
No differences could be discerned between specimens in young fruit,
brought from New Guinea, and the Australian plant. Among known
extra- Australian congeners it bears some resemblance to A, Richii (A.
Gr. in Wilk. Exped. Bot. i. 482, t. 53) ; the phyllodia of the latter
however are broader and often falcate, with more nerves and somewhat
reticular veins, the peduncles of the flower-heads are not placed solitary,
the fruit is much broader and the seeds are placed transversely, not as
in A. Simsii longitudinally. The foliage of A. spirorbis (Labill. Sert,
Austro- Caled. t, 69) is not dissimilar, but the arrangement of the
flowers and the form of the fruits are very different. •
A. Richard noted from Doreh already ;
Ccesalpinia pulcherrima, Swartz Observ. 165.
Clitoria ternatea, L. Sp. PL 753.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Inocarpus edulis, R. and G. Forster Charact. Gener. 65^ t. 33^ was
among the plants found by Lesson at Port Doreh. Seemann (Flor.
Vitiens. p. 70) was inclined to refer this, the Tahitian Chesnut-tree^
rather to Chrysobalanese than to Leguminosee.
Canavalia obtusifolia, Cand. Prodr, ii. 404, was found according fco
Prof. Oliver at Geelvink’s Bay by Dr. Meyer.
MYRTACEJ3.
Leptospermum Amboinense,
Reinwardt in Blume’s Bijdragen tot de Flora van Nederlandsch Indie, p. 1100.
On the Baster-River ^ Rev. S. Macfarlane.
The plant from this locality is here drawn to Reinwardt’s not without
doubt, as flowers and fruits have not been seen ^ the branchlets more-
over are less angular, while the leaves are smaller and of thicker
consistence; but in these respects the Australian species vary much.
L. Amboinense extends to Borneo according to Korthals's collections,
and has therefore a comparatively wide geographic range.
RUBIACE^.
Randia densiflora.
Bentham, Flora Hongkongens, 155.
Katau-River; J, Reedy, The great watercourse, just mentioned,
was incorrectly written in the first portion of this enumeration. This
plant, with those enumerated in the first part of the present publication,
I owe as a Papuan one to the generous liberality of Sir Will. Macarthur,
whose collector gathered it in Mr. W. McLeay’s pioneer-expedition for
science-research in South Eastern Papua.
Additional species of Papuan Rubiaceae, recorded from Mr. Teysmann’s
collections by Dr. Scheffer in the first volume of the Annales du
Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg,” 1876, pp. 28-32, are:
Ophiorrhiza Mungos, Linn. Amoen. Acad, ii. 127.
Mussasnda frondosa, Linn. Sp, PI. 177.
Randia Zippeliana (Gynopachys Zippeliana, Scheff, 1, c. p, 28). This
seems to differ from R. densiflora according to Dr. Scheffer’s description
in always extra-axillary inflorescence and more numerous nerves of the
leaves.
26 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Timonius rigidus (Polyphragmon rigidum, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot.
Lugd. iv. 243).
Timonius pseudo-capitatus (Polyphragmon pseudo-capitatum^ Scheff.
I. c. p. 2D).
Plectronia Moluccana, J. Hook, in Benth. and Hook. Gen. ii. 110,
(Canthium Moluccanum, Boxh. FI. Ind. ed. Wall. ii. 172).
Pavetta Doreensis, Scheff. 1. c. 31.
Hydnophytum lanceolatum, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. iv. 257.
Hydnophytum montanum, Bl. Bijdr. 956,
Hedyotis carnosa.
Korthals in Ncderl. Kruidk. Archief. ii. 161.
On the Baxter-Rivei *3 Rev. S. Macfarlane.
Our plant seems quite identical with the Sumatra plant, of which I
possess specimens distributed by Dr. Korthals. The cilia on the calyx
lobes are however not developed. The corolla is only 1^2'" long and
imbearded; the seeds are angular and black. II. prostrata (Koitli. 1. c.
160) seems conspecific. Khasyan specimens of II. cephalaphora, dis-
tributed in Kfiw from Dr. Hooker’s collection, have the leaves stronger
ribbed and calyx-lobes as well as the corolla considerably longer.
Bentham (Flor. Hongkong, 149), in uniting H. cephalophora with
H. uncinetla (Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. 192) and with H. borreroides
(Champ, in Kew Miscell. iv. 171) describes the corolla only two lines
long; this discrepancy may perhaps be explainable by dimorphism. The
numerous allied species need all careful and extensive study yet on
places of their natural growth, before tlie diagnosis of any can be safely
defined. H. Laperousii (Cand. Prodr. iv. 420), from near the ominous
death-place of the unfortunate Admiral Count Laperouse and his
poor companions, according to the illustration in the Atlas of the
Voyage de I’Astrolabe, PI. 23., differs mainly in longer fiowers and
more strongly nerved leaves from our plant. H. membranacea (Thwait.
Enum. Plant. Ceylon. 143), H. macrophylla (Wall, in Wight et Arn.
Prodr. Flor. Pmnins. Ind. 408), H. inamoena (Thw'ait. 1. c, 143), H.
nodulosa (Arnott. Pugill. 22), H. hispida (Retz. Observ. iv. 23), H.
jodoneura (Miq. Flor. Ind. Batav. ii. 181) and other allied species I
have compared on this occasion, all appearing clearly distinct from H.
carnosa.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
27
Spermacoce Papuana.
Leaves linear, acute, as well as the stems almost glabrous ; stipules
divided into a few setaceous segments; flowers in the axillary and
terminal somewhat verticillar clusters rather numerous ; lobes of the
calyx four, linear-setaceous, longer than the tube ; loies of the corolla
exceeded three or four times by the length of the tube, semilanceolar,
not auriculate ; faux unbearded ; stamens hardly longer than the limb
of the corolla; both valves of the capsule separating from the mem-
branous septum.
On the Baxter-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
Root not obtained. Leaves 1-2 inches long and as many lines broad,
slightly revolute, but not much thickened at the margin. Stipular setae
about 2 lines long ; nearly of their size and form also the lobes of the
calyx. Tube of the corolla about of 3 lines length, gradually narrowed
downwards ; the lobes outside beset with minute hair. Filaments adnate
up to the summit of the tube ; the free part not much longer than the
narrow anthers. Style smooth, 3-4 lines long. Valves of the capsule
about lines long. Seeds narrow-oblong, black.
This species stands in near relationship to S. leevigata (F. M. Fragm.
Phytogr. Austr. iv. 41) ; the leaves are however not strongly nerved
nor mucronulate, the stipular setse are shorter, the flowers mostly
axillary, the limb of the corolla rather shorter in proportion to the
tube. The examination of ampler material may reveal hereafter further
differences. A plant very similar to the Papuan species was obtained
by Mr. Dmmel at Cape York, but its stipules are generally undivided
and the corolla is shorter and outside glabrous,
COMPOSITE,
Vernonia CINEREA-
Lessing in Linn89a 1829, p. 291.
Baxter’s River; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
Wedelia biflora, Cand. in Wight’s Contribut. p. 18, was gathered at
Geelvink’s Bay by Dr. Meyer.
Adenostemma viscosum, R. et G. Forst. Charact. Gen. t. 45, was found
at the same place by Mr. Teysmann according to Dr. Scheffer.
Emilia purpurea, Cassini Diction, xxxiv. 393, was noted by Lesson at
Port Doreh.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
APOCYNEiE.
Alyxia ruscifolia.
R. Brown, Prodrom. Plor. Nov. Holland. 470.
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S, Macfarlane.
The plant was not obtained in flower or fruit, but otherwise it accords
with the East- Australian species,
Chcetosus volubilis, Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. of Bot ii. 226, is
known from New Guinea among- plants of this order, as also the fol-
lowing :
Neuburgia musculiformis, Miq. Flor. Tnd. Batav. ii. 403.
Kopsia flavida, Blume Rumphia, p. 28, t. 181.
Pseudochrosia glomerate, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 158.
Cerbera Odoliam, Gsertn. de Fructib. ii. 193, t. 124. The last men-
tioned plant was recently recorded by Prof. Oliver from Dr. A. B.
Meyer’s small collection formed at Geelvink’s Bay, in the Journ. of the
Linnean Society, 1875, p. 29. Dr. Mej^er found there also Penta-
phragma macrophylla (Oliv.), Sctevola Kcenigi, recorded previously by
A. Richard, and a species of Hedychium allied to H. angustifolium.
Dr. Scheffer in his “ Enumeration des Plantes de la Nouvelle Guinee”
in the new periodical mentioned adds the following- apocynaceous plants :
Tabernsemontana pentasticta, Schefi*. Obs. Phyt. i. 22.
Tabernsemontana Novo-Guineensis, Schefi*. Annul, i. 30.
Plumiera Papuana, Schefi". Annul, i. 30.
Among the plants, transmitted by the Rev. S. Baxter, occurs also a
Carissa, but without flowers and fruits.
PROTEACE/E.
Banksia dentata.
Linn. fil. Suppl. Plant. 127.
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
The flowers and fruits do not occur in the collection, but the leaves
agree with the plant described by the younger Linne from Sir Joseph
Banks’s specimens secured at Endeavour-River. As this one is the
only species known to extend along the coast-tracts of North Australia,
it may fairly be assumed, that the Papuan plant will prove identical with
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Descriptive Notes on Pap'mn Plants,
ours. The isolation of a Banksia beyond Australia, while plants of
this genus reach neither New Caledonia nor New Zealand, remains
remarkable.
ORCHIDEZE.
Dendrobium Macfarlanei.
(Sect. Aporum.)
Glabrous; stems strongly compressed; leaves distichous^ broad- or
lanceolate-linear y straight, acute, with an egxiitant base, their edge
directed towards the stem; peduncles none or exceedingly short;
pedicels solitary or two together; flowers small, pale; outer sepals about
half as long as the pouch and the lip, semilanceolar, broader and longer
than the inner sepals ; labellum with short lateral lobes and a larger
papillous-thickened end-lobe.
On the Baxter-River ; Rev, S. Macfarlane.
Stems, so far as known, about one foot high, leafy to the summit,
attenuated at the base, and probably not from pseudo-bulbs, each portion
between the dark-brownish joints about an inch long and two lines
vride, shining, smooth, yellowish, almost concealed by the vaginal
persistent portion of a leaf; blade of the leaves when well developed
inches long and as many lines broad, acute, thickly ohartaceous,
finely streaked, by basal diagonal fracture deciduous. Bracts short,
crowded around the base of the pedicel; their rigid nerves resisting
decay. Pedicels almost capillary, J of an inch or less long. Flowers in
a dry state pale yellow, in a fresh state probably white. Outer sepals
about 2"' long ; the upper one slightly narrower than the lower ones ;
the inner sepals much narrower ; spurlike portion of the flowers nearly
A" long; labellum seen only in a shrivelled state; its lower portion
seemingly not very bi*oad. Pollinia 4, cuneate-ovate, longitudinal,
coherent in two pairs. Fruit unknown. The leaves are longer than
those of D. micranthum (Lindl. Contrib. Orchid. 3) and the inner
sepals not several times shorter than the outer ones. Unlike D, Serra
(Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 629; Aporum Serra, Lindl. in Wall. Catalog.
2021), the stems are towards the summit not hare of leaves. Again, in
D.sinuatum (G. Reichenb. in Walp. Annal. Bot. Syst. vi. 280) the leaves
are broader, more approximate, and their persistent basal part leaves
tooth-like prominences; the same distinctive notes hold good for D.
anceps (Roxb. Flor. Indie, iii. 487), besides the shortness of the leaves
of the latter species.
30 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
The worthy missionary’s collection contains another Dendrobium of
the section Aporum ; in this the leaves are about as long as those of
D. incrassatum (Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. iii. 631 ; Aporum incrassatum, BI,
Bijdr. 334 ; Brogn. Bot. Voy. Coquill, t. 42), but only about half their
width, still in the same manner closely approximate and rendering the
stem by their lapse serrate. In one specimen occurs the remnant of a
solitary axillary naked peduncle, which is about long and beset with
very short glandular hair. Whether the Papuan plant actually belongs
to D. incrassatum or to D. anceps or to some other allied species, future
researches must decide. Be^mnd the orchideous plants, already alluded
to cursorily in the first fascicle of this publication, we know from New
Guinea:
Dendrobium macrophyllum, A. Rich. Bot. Voy. de I’Astrolabe 22, t. 9.
Dendrobium hispidum, A. Rich. 1. c. 13, t. 6 (D. umbellatum, G.
Reichenb. in Walp. Annal. vi. 303 j Cadetia umbellata, Gaudich. Bot.
Voy. Freycen. t. 33; C. similis, Blume. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 29).
Dendrobium funiforme, Blume Rumphia iv. 40j t. 193 et 198.
Dendrobium heteroideum, Blume Rumphia iv. 40, t. 193.
Dendrobium trichostomura, G. Reichenb. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1875,
p. 30.
Dendrobium insigne, G. Reichenb. in Hook. Bond. Journ. of Bot. ii,
237.
Bolbophyllum grandiflorum, Blume Rumphia iv. 42.
Podochilus densifiorus, Bl. Rumpb. iv. 44, t. 192.
Podochilus scalpelliformis, Bl. Rumph. iv. 45, t. 194.
Appendicula penicillata, Bl. Rumph. iv. 40, t. 195 et 200.
Cheirostylis grandiflora, Bl. FI. Javae, 45, t. 13 et 17.
Hetseria obscura, Miq. FL Ind, Bat. iii. 726.
Iletceria elongata, Miq. 1. c.
Apostasia Wallichii, R. Br. in Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rarior, i, 75, t. 84.
LILIACE^.
CORDYLINE TERMINALIS,
Kuiith. in Act. Acad. Berol. 1820, p. 30.
Fly-River; Rev, S. Macfarlane.
Scheffer records Dracaena Draco from Humboldt’s Bay; but if it
really was the Linnean plant, which Mr, Teysmann saw, then it must
have found its way, like into India, so into New Guinea, by cultural
introduction.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
31
GRAMINEiE.
Coix Lacryma Jobi.
Linne Spec. Plant. 972.
On tlie Upper Fly-River 5 d’ Albertis.
Specimens from the above locality were sent me by Dr. G. Bennett,
who for nearly half a century has advanced researches in natural
sciences among- us, and who has taken a vivid interest in the important
exploits of the Italian Naturalist in New Guinea.
Ach. Richard noted from Port Doreh :
Centotheca lappacea, Beauv. Agrostogr. t. 14, f. 7.
Panicum compositum, L. Sp. PL 57.
Panicum multinode, Lam. Encycl. iv. 747, which seems referable to
P. repens, L. Sp. PI. edit. sec. 87.
CYPERACE^.
Cyperus diffusus.
Vahl Enumerat. Plantar, ii. 321.
On the Baxter-River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
This stately Galingale must have a wide range through the Papuan
Island,, as it has been met also on the north-west coast near Port Doreh,
from whence already Lesson brought it in 1827, according to the record
by Acliille Richard, who inserted the plant as C. longifolius (Poir.
Encycl. Methodique x. 270) into the botanical volume of the voyage
de FAstrolabe. Ivunth (Enum. ii, 30) was inclined to unite Poirefs
with Vahl’s plant, in which conjecture of their identity he seems to
have been fully justified, although more recently Boeckeler (in Linnma
1808, p. 534 et 535) holds yet both distinct. I find that C. diifusus
extends to Ceylon (Thwaites 3931). As well shown by Boeckeler and
as also seen by myself, C. Lagorensis (Steud. Glumac. ii. 36) and C.
pubisquama (Steud. 1. c. 20) are clearly referable to C. diffusus. Of
this order of plants are on record as Papuan :
Kyllingia monocephala, Rottboell. Plant. Nov, 13, t. iv.
Carex cryptostachya, Brogn. Bot. Voy. Duperr. 152, t. 25 (Boott.
Illustr. Caric. 103, t. 310); also a species of Scleria and another plant,
distinguished generically as Cyclocampe, both requiring identification.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
FILICES.
SCHIZiEA DICHOTOMA.
Willd. Act. Academ. Erford. 1802, p. 30, t. 3, f. 2.
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
S. Forsteri, Spreng-. Anleitung; iii. 175, is known from Waighion-
Island, accord, to Miq. Annal. iv. 299.
Adiantum hispidulum.
Swartz Syiiops. Filic. 124 et 321.
Baxter’s River; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
A. caudatum, Linn. Mantiss. 308, is recorded by Mettenius as a Papuan
species in Miquel’s Annales Musei Bot. Lugd. Batav. iv. 280.
Grammitis pinnata.
F. M, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. vi. 124.
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
In justice to Swartz I prefer to maintain his Grammitis as a genus
instead of Gymnogramma of Desvaux (in Berlin Magaz. 1811, p. 304),
especially as Bernhardi, R. Brown and Willdenow acknowledged
Swartz’s genus before the fii-st definition of Gymnogramma by Desvaux
did appear, although a portion of Swartz’s original species of Gram-
mitis required to be transferred to As[)lenium and mainly Polypodium.
Four species however of those, admitted by Swartz, remain thus
unaltered in name typical for Grammitis, including the widely diffused
G. leptophylla, described already as a doubtful Polypodium by Linne
(Sp. PI. edit. sec. 1553). Otherwise almost for the same cause
numerous other genera might be abolished, among ferns even Polypo-
dium itself, simply because by subsequent closer limitation of the
genera it became necessary to transfer of the original species of Poly-
podium, described in Linne’s Sp. Plant,, more than half to other chiefly
later established genera, not less than 14 belonging to Aspidium and
many to Cystopteris, Asplenium, Adiantum, Grammitis, Meniscium,
Cheilanthes, Pteris, Davallia, Dicksonia and Cyathea.
Descriptive Notes on Fainum Planis.
Davallia flaccida.
U, 33r. Prodr. 157.
On the Baxter-River ; Rev. S. M acfarlane.
The near relationship of this fern to Dicksonia flavallioides was j>oimetl
out already ten years ago in my Fragmenta, v. 118. R. Brown’s name
will probably have to give way to the older of D. multifida (Sw. Syn.
Fil. 137).
Ach. Richard records as occurring at Port Doreh :
Vittaria elongata, Sw. Syn. Filic. 19y.
Aspidium umitumj Sw. 1. c. 47.
Lygodium circinnatum, Sw. 1. c. 153.
Acrostichum aureiim, L. Sp. PI. 1069.
Besides, Richard mentions several species of Asplenium and Aspidium,
some of which were then regarded as new, all requiring yet final identi-
fication, being overlooked by the principal writers on ferns.
Trichomanes Filicula, Bory in Bot. Voy, Duperr. i. 283. This little
and delicate fern was found at Geelvink-Bay by Dr. Meyer.
Beyond the plants, alluded to already in this and the previous publi-
cation, we are now acquainted mainly through Dr. Scheffer’s important
writings also with representatives of the following genera from within
the limits of New Guinea : Clematis, Uvaria, PhaBanthus, Flacourtia,
Garcinia, Eurya, Gordonia, Rhyssopterys, Gonocaryum, Jodes, Euodia
(the Euodia suaveolens, just described by Dr, Scheffer, may perhaps
prove to be a form of E. longifolia, A. Rich. Voy. de 1’ Astrolabe 61,
t. 22), Soulamea, Hibiscus, Impatiens, Begonia, Celosea, Achyranthes,
Smythea, Buchanania, Semecarpus, Sonneratia, Melastoma, Astronia,
Rubus, Melothria, Pisonia, Loranthus, Hernandia, Beilschmiedia, Piper,
Phaleria, Viburnum, Polyscias, Bidens, Scasvola, Msesa, Myrsine,
Payenia, Jasminum, Visiania, Chionanthus, Thylophora, Ipomoea,
Lepistemon, Solanum, Ocimum, Cyrtandra, Ruellia, Justicia, Peristrophe,
Callicarpa, Clerodendron, Gmelina, Tectona, Faradaya, Avicennia,
(Juercus, Araucaria, Cycas, Pandanus, Heliconopsis, Maranta, Hedy-
chiuni, Phiynium, Arum, Sagus, Commelyna, Pollia, Flagellaria,
Scleria, Carex, Aristida, Rottboeilia, Cenchrus and Saccharum,
Dr. Bennett has drawn my attention to some notes on Dr. Odoardo
Beccari’s Papuan Plants in Guido Cora’s Cosmos, 1875, p. 94, a copy
of which work was obligingly placed at my disposal by tlie Chevalier
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M Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Marinuccij Consul General for Italy at Melbourne. These phytologic
data have reference to Mount Arfak and occur in a letter^ written by
Beccari last year after his ascent of that mountain. He speaks of finding
there an Araucaria^ a Gunnera^ an Epilobium and a Balanophora; of
which genera no species from any part of Papua were known before.
In the same volume of Cora’s journal several passages (at pp, 104^ 105
and 107) are contained from Signor D’Albertis’s letters^ pointing to the
occurrence of two Eucalypts at Epa on the Ethrel- or Nicura- River and
towards Mount Yule. A representative of the genus Rhododendron
seems also to have been found by the Italian sicientific travellers.
DESCEIPTIYE YOTES OY PAPUAN
PLANTS,
BY
BAEON FEED. VON lUELLEE, C.I.O., I. & PH.D., E.E.S.
III.
The collections for this third puhlication on Papuan Plants
were mainly obtained by the Eev. S. Macfarlane of the London
Mission-Society, and by Mr. Andrew Goldie (an emissary of the
great Horticulturist S. B. Williams of London), who had the
favor conceded of sharing in the last mission-voyage, which shed
so much geographic glory also on the toilsome and perilous
enterprises of the devoted divines in the South-East of the Papuan
Island. Lastly the celebrated Signor D’Albertis through Dr. G.
Bennett’s hind mediation contributed also to the material for
these pages. And more — ^it is delightful to add, that from all
these investigators of the Paj)ua-land further and grand additions
to our knowledge of its plants also may early be expected ;
because in the now forthcoming explorations almost certainly the
alpine heights will be attained ; these with the middle and
perhaps also lower regions of the mountain-tiers must produce
large numbers of endemic species among plants also, when the
animal creation, while sending many of its forms from the
mountains to the coast-lines, exhibited already such a startling
display of jjeculiar types.
Melbourne, 30th June 1876.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
GUTTIFER/E.
Calophyllum inophyllum:.
Linne, Species Plautarum, 513.
South-East part of New Guinea; D’ Albertis. Fruit not seen.
STERCULIACEiE.
AbrOMA AUGUSTA.
Linne fil. Supplement. Plant. 341.
Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Darnley’s Island ; Goldie.
Melochia pyramiuata.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 774.
Port Moresby; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
MALYACE^.
Thespesia populnea.
Solander, according to Correa in Annal. Mus. Paris, ix. 290, t. 8, f. 2.
Darnley’s Island ; A. Goldie.
MALPIGHIACE^.
Ryssopterys Timorensis.
Blume in Adr. de Juss. Monographie des Malpighiacees, 133.
Port Moresby; Macfarlane and Goldie,
Fruits from this localitj^ not yet obtained. The only other coordinal
plant on record from New Guinea is Tristellateia Australasica^ A. Rich.
Sert. Astrolab. 38^ t. 15.
VINIFERiE.
Leea sambucina.
Willdenow, Spec. Plant, i. 1177.
Darnley’s Island; A. Goldie.
VlTIS cordata.
Wallich, Numerical List, 6008.
South-Eastern parts of New Guinea; D’Albertis.
Besides we huow throii^ii Miquel’s writing's the following’ plants of
this order from New Guinea :
Vitis Papuana, Miq. Annal. i, 74,
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Vitis pubiflora, Miq. 1. c. 74,
Vitis pisocarpa, Miq. 1, c. 79.
Vitis diffusa, Miq. 1. c, 83.
Vitis rostrata, Miq. 1. c. 85.
Leea Zippeliana, Miq. 1. c. 101.
Leea Sundaica, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I. pars. ii. 610.
The moist jungles of the Papuan Mountains will likely prove to be
teeming with plants of the viniferous order. Since many years I have
rejected the term Ampelideae, though nearly universal in recent phyto-
graphic works, as quite the same word is in full use by Ornithologists,
having been adopted in 1831 already by Prince Bonaparte for that group
of the Clamatores, of which Ampelis (Linne Syst. Nat. anno 1748) is
the type. Surely in any system of nature ought not to re-occur precisely
the same names for genera or orders both in the animal and plant-divi-
sions; and for this reasonable principle Reichenbach and a few others
have contended, though only with very scanty success. Moi'eover Jaume
de Saint Hilaire established his original gi-oup of Viniferm with its also
very expressive name in 1805 already (Expos. Famil. ii. 48, t. 79)
according to Pfeiffer’s great and really most accurate work ; whereas the
term Ampelidem occurs first in Humb. Bonpl. et Kunth, Nova Genera
et Species Plantar, v. 222, as late as 1821. The less significant name
Sarmentosse, adopted already in 1799 by Ventenat (Tableau du Regne
Vegetale, iii. 1G7) in the limitation of Viniferse, was restricted from
Linne’s Philosophia Botanica 32 anno 1751, where however it included
both Mono- and Dicotyledonous plants, Sprengel in 1817 (Anieitung
zur Kenntniss der Gewaechse, zweite Ausgabe, i. 219) restiicts the Sar-
mentaceae to some liliaceous groups ; hence the appellation has become
utterly ambiguous.
ZYGOPHYLLE^.
Tribulus terrestris.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 387.
Darnley’s Island; Macfarlane and Goldie.
De rObel (Plantarum sen Stirpium leones ii. 84) already in 1581
bestowed precisely the same generic and specific name on tliis well
known plant without any further designation. There seems thus really
no reason, as Sprengel and others long since have pointed out, why for
this and numerous other plants the ancient authorities should not be
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restored. Could the great Linne have foreseen^ how much stress in later
times vvifh increasing material would he laid necessarily on the precise
chronologic authority for all genera and species as well of plants as of
animals, then with his strong sense of justice he would doubtless have
maintained also the imnies for species, established by his predecessors, in
all those cases certainly when one single speciiic word only was chosen
for the designation. The question therefore arises, whether as the
merest act of right the oldest species-names, limited to one apt word and
ap})Iied correctl}^ to a germs, should be restored. A number of meritorious
and toiling men, whose literary labors have sunk gradually into unde-
served oblivion, would then share anew in the honor of sponsorship for
the specific surnames of plants and animals, originally given by them.
At all events wherever Linne himself adopted the very specific appel-
lations from writers before him, no difficulty ought to exist to return to
the original authorities, as this would not involve any undesirable change
whatever of names maintained by the usages of more than a century.
I find that already in the first edition of Linne’s Species Plantarum not
less than 286 plants are adduced with only one specific name from
previous literature, so far as they ai’e correctly }>laced in their genus.
Although to hardly any of these the least exception could rightly be
taken at the present day, yet it might perhaps be too much to ask to
restore them all, inasmuch as in The majority of cases a change of the
specific word would become needful. But tliere remain still 114 species
to be considered, the ancient names of which both generic and specific
were left unchanged by the great Swedish naturalist. A list of these is
given below from Linne’s own quotations, although I am aware that not
in every instance modern critical research coincides in the views held by
Linn^ to what particular species, as now defined, these oldest names
slionld be drawn. Linne himself must have been led by De FObel,
de I’EcIuse, Gasp, Bauhin and others to recognize the necessity of
confining the specific appellations throughout to one word, by which
principle he at once gained such glorious clearness for all his specific
designations, obtaining thus also brevity for the systematic record of
all the organic beings, as well zoological as phytological, known at his
time, and this in a manner to call forth the imitation and admiration of
all ages, and to stamp Linne’s name for ever on every square mile of the
inhabitable portion of the globe tlirough the organic creation.
l^ammculus aqnatiiis, Dodon. Stirp. Hist. Pempt. 387 ; R. bulbosus, Lobel.
Plant, seu Stiiqi. Icon. 666 ; Anemone trifolia, Dod. Pempt. 436 ; Calllia paiustris,
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
C. Baiihin Pinax, 276 ; Thalictrum minus, Dod. Pempt. 58 ; K'ymplifca alba,
J. earner, de Plant. Kpitom. Util. 63t ; Lepklium latifolium, C. Bauh. Pin. 97 ;
Thlaspi montamim, Clus. Rar. Stirp. Hist. ii. 131 ; Dontaria pentaphyllos, C. Bauh.
Pin. 322 ; Chelidonium majus, Puclis de Hist. Stirp. Comment, 805 ; Viola
odorata, Rencalm Speeim, Hist. Pi. 141, t. 140 ; V. tricolor, Ron. Speoim. 144, t. 140;
Geranium nodosum, C. Bauh. Pin. 318; Malva erispa, Uod. Pempt. 653 ; Vitis
Tinifera, C. Bauh. Pin. 229 ; Rhus coriaria. Hod. Pempt. 779 ; Platanus occiden-
talis, Catesb. Nat. Hist, of Carolina, i. 56, t. 56 ; Populus alba, Hod. Ikmpt. 835 ;
P. treniula, C. Bauh. Pin. 429 ; P. nigra, C. Bauh. Pin. 429 ; Cannabis sativa, C.
Bauh. Pin. 320 ; Amarantus tricolor, Lob. Icon. 252 ; Atriplex hortensis, Hod.
Pempt. 615 ; Chorispermum hyssopifolium, Ant. de Jussieu in Act. Acad. Paris,
1712, p. 244; Mesembrianthemum calamiforme, Hilleu. Hort. Klthamens. 239, t.
186 ; M. bellidiflorum, Hill. Hort. Elth. 244, t. 189 ; M. loreum, Hill. Hort. Elth.
264, t. 200 ; Reseda lutea, J. Bauhin ct Chei’ler. Histor. Plant. Univ. iii. 467 ; Ebe-
nus Cretica, Alpin. de Plant. Exotic. 279, t. 278 ; Astragalus Bceticus, Clus. Hist.
ii. 234 ; A. Syriacus, Lob. Icon. 79 ; A. Monspessubmus, J. Bauh. et Cherl. Hist.
iii. 338 ; Cicer arietinum, Hod. Pempt. 525 ; Melilotus Italica, J. Camcrar. Hort.
Med. et Phil. 99, t. 29 ; Trifolinm repens, Kivin. Ord. Plant. PI. Tetrapet. 17 ; T.
pratense, J. Gamer, dc PI Epit. 582 ; T. stellatuni, C. Bauh. Pin. 329 ; T. fragi-
fcnim, Yaillant. Botanic. Paris, 195, t. 22 ; T. agnirium, Hod. Pempt 576 ; Mcdi-
cago sativa, Morison PI. Hist. Uuivers. ii. 150, t. 16 ; M. marina, Gins, Hist. ii. 243 ;
M. scutellata, J. Bauh. et Cherl. Hist, iii. 384 ; 'M. Arahica, J. Gamer. Hort. Med.
97, t. 27 ; Pliaseolus vulgaris, Lobel. Icon. 59 ; Lathyrus silvestris, Clus. Hist. ii.
129 ; L. latifolius, C. Bauh. Pin. 344 ; Vicia sepium, Kivin. Ord. PI. FI. Tetrap.
66 ; V. Narbonnensis, Riv. Ord. PI. PI. Tetrap. 56 ; Anagyris foetida, C. Bauh. Pin.
391 ; Kubus odoratus, Cormit. Canad. PI. Hist. 149, t. 150; Rosa cglanteria,
Tabern. Eicon. Plant. 1087 ; Alchemilla vulgaris, C. Bauh. Pin. 319 ; Rhamnus
catharticus, C. Bauh. Pin. 478 ; Asarum Canadense, Cornnt. Canad. PI. Hist. 24,
t. 25 ; Aristolocbia rotunda, Clus. Hist. ii. 70 ; A. longa, Clus, Hist. ii. 70 ; Cucur-
bita verrucosa, J. Bauh. et Cherl. Hist. ii. 222 ; Sium latifolium, C. Bauh. Pin.
154 ; Angelica silvestris, Hod, Pempt. 318 ; Laserpitium Gallicum, C. Bauh. Pin.
156 ; Annni majus, C. Bauh. Pin. 159 ; Eryngium maritimum, Clus. Hist. ii. 169 ;
Galium ruhruni, C. Bauh. Pin. 355 ; Santalum album, C. Bauh. Pin. 392 ; Scabiosa
arvensis, Tabernaimont. Krieuterbuoh, 442 ; Eupatmlum canuabimrm, C. Bauh.
l^in. 320 ; Artemisia vulgaris, J. Bauh. et Cherl. Hist. iii. 184 ; Helichrysiim
orieiitale, C. Bauh. Pin. 264 ; Chrysanthemum segetum, Clus. Hist. ii. 70; Am-
brosia maritima, C. B.auh. Pin. 138 ; Carduus nutans, J. Bauh. ct Cherl. Hist. iii.
56 ; C. acanthoides, J. Bauh. ct Cherl. Hist. iii. 59 ; Cicliorium spiuosum, C. Bauh.
Pin, 126 ; Chondrilla juncca, Tabernsem. Krajutorb. 487 ; Lactuca sativa, C. Bauh.
Pin. 122 ; Pyrola minor, Rivin. Ord. PI. FI. Pentapet. 149 ; Gcntiana cruciata,
Bauh. Pin. 188 ; Glaux maritima, Bauh. Pin. 215 ; Soldanella alpina, J. Gamer,
de PI. Epitom. 254 ; Glohularia spinosa, Tournefort Instit. rei herhar. 476 ;
Plantago major, J. Camer. de PI. Epitom. 261 ; Cuscuta majoi*, C. Bauh. Pin. 219;
Higitalis purpurea, Hod. I*empt. 168; Orobanche ramosa, C, Bauh, Pin. 491;
Fraxinus excelsior, C. Bauh. Pin. 416 ; Idiillyrca angustifolia, C. Bauh. Pin. 476 ;
Echium Creticum, Clus. Hist. ii. 143 ; Cerinthe minor, C. Bauh. Pin. 258 ; Satureja
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
montana, C. Bauh. Pin. 218 ; S. hortensis, C. Bauh. Pin. 218 ; Lavandula latifolia,
C. Bauh. Pin. 216; L. angustifolia, C. Bauh. Pin. 216; Ocimura minimum, C.
Bauh. Pin. 226 ; Marrubium vulgare, Clus. Hist. ii. 34 ; Prunella hyssopifolia, C.
Bauh. Pin. 261 ; Finns silvestris, C. Bauh. Pin, 491 ; Juniperus Bermudiana,
Hermann Hort. Acad. Lugd. Rat. 345, t. 347 ; Sparganium ramosura, C. Bauh. Pin.
15 ; Colchicura montanum, Clus. Bar. Stirp. Hisp. Hist. 266 ; Crocus sativus, C.
Bauh. Pin. 65 ; Narcissus serotinus, Clus. Hist. i. 162 ; Allium sativum, Bauh. Pin.
73 ; A. ursinura, Fuchs de Hist. Stirp. Comment. 739 ; Fritillaria Pyrenaica,
Clus, Hist. ii. 256 ; Ornithogalum Pyrenaicum, Clus. Cur.Postr. 21 ; O. Arabicum,
Clus. Hist. 189 ; Hyacinthus Orientalis, Bauh. Pin. 44; Hordeum distichum, C.
Bauh. Pin. 22 ; Equisetum silvaticum, Tabernacm. Krasuterb. 562 ; Ophioglossum
vulgatura. C. Bauh. Pin. 364 ; O. palmatum, Plumier Filicet. American. 139, 1. 163;
Polypodium vulgare, C. Bauh. Pin. 359.
Linne himself made already in 1737 exceptionally use of the merely
dual appellation of plants in his Flora Lapponica.
EUPHORBIACE^.
Securtnega Abyssinica.
A. Richard, Teutam. FI. Abyssin. ii. 256.
Darnley’s Island 5 A. Goldie.
Euphorbia Atoto.
G. Forster, Florul. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 36.
Darnley’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie.
URTICE^.
Trema cannabina.
Lonreiro, Flora Cochinchinensis, edit. Willd. 689.
Port Moresby ; A. Goldie,
Fleurya interrupta.
Gaudichaud, Voyage de PUranie, Bot. 497.
Darnley’s Island.
PoUZOLZIA QUINQUENERVIS.
Bennett in Horsfield. Plant. Javan. Rarior. 66.
Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
Blume and Miquel have recorded already from New Guinea the
following* Urticem ;
Celtis paniculata, Planchon in Annales des Scienc, Nat. 1848, p, 305.
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• Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Celtis Zippelii^ Planch. 1. c.
Celtis latifolia, Planch. 1. c.
Gironniera rhamnifolia, Bl. Mns. Bot. Lugcl. ii. 74,
Fleurja ruderalis, Gaud. Voy. Uran. 497.
Villebrunia murina, Blume Mus. Bot. Lug-d. 160.
Villebrunia rufescens, Bl. 1. c.
Villebrunia rhodopleura, Bl. 1. c. All three doubtful^ so far as generic
position is concerned^ and transferred by Miquel to Oreocnide.
Cypholophus latifolius^ Wedd. in Cand. Prodr. xvi. 235.
Cypholophus vestitus, Miq, FI. Ind. Bat. i. pars. alt. 263.
Cypholophus prostratus, Wedd. 1. c.
Cypholophus melanocarpus, Miq. 1. c.
Streblus asper, Lour. FI. Cochin, ii. 615.
Ficus pilosa, Reinw. in Miq. Annal. iii. 260.
Ficus cuspidata, Reinw. in Bl. Bijdr. 464.
Ficus obscura, Bl. Bijdr. 474.
Ficus ang’ulidens, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pars. alt. p. 310.
Ficus parietalis, Bl. Bijdr. 462.
Miquel (Annal. iii. 274) mentions that 30 species of Ficus were already
gathered in New Guinea by Zippelius, who however did not preserve
specimens of thfem, but wrote their descriptions on the spots of discovery.
Weddell (in Cand. Prodr. xvi. p. L 169) mentions further from New
Guinea :
Pellionia elatostemoides, Gaudichaud, Botaniq. Voy. Freycen. t. 119.
*
AMARANTACE^.
Deeringia celosioides.
R. Br. Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. 413,
Port Moresby 5 A. Goldie.
Moquin-Tandon (in Candolle's Prodr. xiii. tom. ii. pag. 326) gives as
Papuan :
Cyathula geniculata, Loureiro, Flora Cochinchinensis, i. 101.
LEGIJMINOS.E.
PSORALEA ArCHERI.
P. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr, iv. 21,
Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane,
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Desmodium umbellatum,
Cand. Prodr. ii. 325.
Port Moresby ; Macfarlane and Goldie. Sent also by Signor
D’Albertis.
Indigofera linifolia.
Retzius, Observation. Botan. iv. 29.
Port Moresby^ Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island; A. Goldie.
Indigofera trifoliata.
Linne, Amoen. Acad. iv. 327.
Yule’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie.
Pyonospora hedysaroides.
R. Brown in Wight et Arnott Prodr. Plor. Penins. Ind. 197.
Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
Crotalaria linifolia.
Linne fil. Supplem. Plantar. 328.
Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
Canavalia obtusifolia.
Candolle, Prodrom. Syst. Nat. Regn. Yeg.' ii. 404.
Port Moresby; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
Galactia tenuiflora.
Wight et Arnott, Prodr. 206.
Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
Uraria cercifolia.
Desvaux, Journal de Botanique, iii. 122, t. 5, f. 19,
Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
SOPHORA TOMENTOSA,
Linne, Spec. Plant. 373.
Darnley’s Island; A. Goldie,
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C^SALPINIA BoNDUCELLA.
Fleming, Asiatic Researches, xi. 159.
Darnley’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie, Fruit not seen.
LYTHRACE^.
Pemphis acidula,
R. et G. Forster, Characteres Generum, 67, t. 34.
Darnley’s Island; A. Goldie,
RUBIACEtE,
Knoxia corymbosa.
Willdenow, Spec. Plant, i. 582.
Yule’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie,
GuETTARDA SPECIOSA.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 991.
Darnley’s Island; Macfarlane and Goldie.
COMPOSITE.
Bibexs pilosus,
Linne, Spec. Plantar. 832.
Port Moresby and Darnley’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie.
Pterocaulon Billardiert.
Monenteles spicatus, Labillard. Sert. Austr. Caled. 43, t. 43.
Port Moresby; A. Goldie.
Bentbam (J. H. et B. Gen. Plant, ii. 294) has reduced Monenteles
to Pterocaulon; in the latter Labillardiere’s species-appellation is already
preoccupied by a Brazilian plant.
Wedelta biflora.
Candolle in Wight’s Contributions, 18.
Darnley’s Island; Macfarlane and Goldie,
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Erigeron linifolius.
Willdeno-w, Spec. Plant, iii. 1955.
China-Straits; Rev, S, Macfarlane.
ASPERIFOLI^,
CORDIA SUBCORDATA.
Lamarck, Illustrat. des Genr. 1899.
/Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
SOLANACE^.
SOLANUM VERBASCIFOLIUM.
Linne, Spec. Plantar. 184.
Port Moresby; A. Goldie. Found at Port Doreh already during the
explorations of the French corvette Astrolabe,
Other Solanaceae, known as Papuans ;
Solanum Schefferi (S. incanura, Scheff. in Annal. du Jardin Botaniq.
de Buitenz. 1876, p. 39^ non Linne).
INearAndaj; Teysmann.
Solanum lasiocarpum (Dunal^ Histoire des Solan, 222).
Wear Port Doreh, according to Botanique de FAstrolabe, 1832, p. xxi.
Solanum pulvinare (Scheff. 1. c.).
Ajambori, Teysmann. The cushion-like appearance, which the spe-
cific name would imply, is quite exceptional among the many hundred
species of Solanum hitherto described.
COWVOLVULAOE.^.
Ipomcea quinata.
R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 486.
Yule’s Island; Macfarlane and Goldie.
LABIATiE.
Anisomeles salvifolia.
R. Brown, Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. 503.
Darnley’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie.
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Orthosiphon stamineus.
Bentham in Wailich's Plant. Asiatic. Earior. ii. 15.
Yule’s Island; A. Goldie.
A variety with toothless leaves. Neither Miquel nor Scheffer (An-
nales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzor^^ 1876) have any plant of the
LabiatEe in their lists of New Guinean plants. The missionaries have
sent a Plectranthus also, but not in flower for exact naming.
XEROTIDE^.
Xerotes Banksii.
R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 263.
On Baxter’s River; Jam, Orkney.
The specimens are without flowei's and fruits ; but there seems no
doubt, that they belong to the genuine Banksian plant, which the writer
has also ascertained to extend to New Caledonia. Mr. Orkney gathered
several other plants, all communicated to me by R. Br. Smjth, Esq. ; but
they are identical with the species previously recorded in these pages.
IIYDROCHARIDE^.
Enhalus acoroides.
Ii. C. Richard in Memoir, de I’Institute, 1811, tom. ii. p. 64.
Frequent on some parts of the New Guinean coast; Dr. F. Naumann.
Observed during the voyage of the Imperial German corvette Gazelle,
according to Dr. Ascherson, the able monographer of the oceanic Mono-
cotyledonese. See Annalen der Hydrographie und Maritimen Meteoro-
logie, March 1876.
COMMELYNE.Tl.
COMMELYNA ENSIFOLIA.
R. Brown, Prodrom. FI. Nov. Holl. 269.
Port Moresby and Darnley’s Island; Rev. S. Macfarlane and A.
Goldie,
CYPERACEiE.
Cypeuus monocephalus.
F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. viii. 271.
Darnley’s Island ; Goldie.
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Descnj>twe Notes on Papuan Plants.
ISOLEPIS BAKBATA.
R. Brown, Prodr. PL Not. Holl. 222.
Port Moresby ; Macfarlane and Goldie.
GRAMINE^.
Saccharum spontaneum.
Linne, Mantissa Plantarum, 183.
Yule’s Island ; Macfarlane and Goldie.
Recorded already by Ach. Richard from Port Doreh.
Apluba mutica.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 82.
Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
Andropogon rottbcellioibes.
Steudel, Glumac. i. 382.
Darnley’s Island ; A. Goldie.
Coelorachis muricata (Brog’n. in Duperrey’s Voy. Bot. 65, t. 14),
which undoubtedly represents the Ischaemum rottboellioides (R. Br. Pr.
205) is by Steudel adduced to Ischsemum pectinatum (Trin. Act. Petro-
pol. 296).
Andropogon annulatus.
Porskaal, Plor. -®gypt. Arabic. 173.
Port Moresby 5 Rev. S. Macfarlane.
The form with long-bearded bracts and elongated awns, described by
R. Brown as A. sericeus.
Andropogon contobtus.
Linne, Spec. Plantar. 1045.
Port Moresby 5 Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
The Eucalyptus-countr}'' inland also is densely covered with this grass,
except low swampy localities, according to Mr. Goldie’s note.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
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Andropogon haleppensis.
Sibthorp et Smith, Mora Gr^ca, t. 68.
Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
The variety -with smaller spikelets, considered by some to have claims
as a species, namely A. tropicus (Spreng. Syst. Veg\ i. 287).
Anthistiria ciliata,
liinne fil. Dissertat. de Nov. Gramin. Gener. 35.
Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
Panicum virgatum.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 59,
Port Moresby 5 Rev. S. Macfarlane.
Panicum sanguinale.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 57.
Port Moresby ; Macfarlane and Goldie.
The form with elongated spikes, superposed on an extended axis. See
Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. viii. 154.
Eleusine cruciata.
Lamarck, Encycl. Methodiq. t. 48, f. 2.
Darnley’s Island ; A. Goldie.
Perotis rara.
R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 172.
Port Moresby ; Rev. S. Macfrrlaue.
Leptaspis Banksii.
R. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 211.
Port Moresby; Rev. S. Macfarlane. Yule’s Island; A. Goldie.
Miquel records as Papuan grasses :
Aristida ramosa, R. Br. Pr. 173.
Centotheca lappacea, Desv. Journ. de Bot. 1813, p. 70.
Saccharum macilentum, Chauv, in Sleud. Glum, 406.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
FILICES.
Cheilanthes tenuifolia,
Swartz. Synops. Filic. 129.
Yule’s Island ; Goldie.
Polypodium irioides.
Poiret in Lam. Encycl. Meth. v. 513.
Yule’s Island ; A. Goldie.
Polypodium phymatodes.
Linne, Mautiss. Plant. 360.
Darnley’s Island* A. Goldie.
Mettenius (in Miq. Annal. iii.) gives the following species from
Papuan collections :
P, sinuosum^ Wall. Catal. 2231.
P. linguiforme, Mett. Pil. Ind. 225.
P. quercifblium, Linne^ Sp. PI. 1087.
P. Linnoei, Bory in Annal des Sc. Nat. v. 464, t. 12,
P. rigidulum, Sw. Syn. Pil. 38.
P. femigineum, Bak. in H. et B. Syn. Pil. 318.
P. acrosticlioides, G. Porst. Plorul. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 81.
Baker (in Hooker’s Synops. Pil. sec. edit. p. 350) notes as Papuan :
P. stigmosum, Swartz. Synops. Pil. 29.
Aspidium ramosum.
Beauvois, Flore d’Oware, 91.
South-East Papua j D’ Albertis.
Mettenius has shown, that the following congeners exist also in New
Guinea :
A. immersum, Bl. Enum. Pil. Jav. 156.
A. truncatum, Gaudich. in Pj-eyc. Yoy. t. 10.
A. Pica, Desv. in Berl. Mag. v. 319.
A. acutmn, Sclikulir Kryptog. Gewsechs. 32, t. 31.
A. exaltatiun, Swartz Syn. Pil. 45.
If Oleandra becomes reduced to Aspidium, as well might be done, then
0. neriiformis (Cavanill. Prsel. 1801, n. 623) requires to be recorded on
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
this occasion as an additional Papuan Aspidium (A. neriiforme, Sw.
Sjn, Fil. 42), according* to Hook, et Bak. Syn. Fil. second edit. 302,
0. museefolia, Kunze in Metten. Filic. Ind. 240, stands also on record
from New Guinea, according* to Miq. Annal. i. 240,
Adiantum lunulatum,
Burmann, Flor. ludic. 235.
Darnley’s Island; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
Davallia elegans.
Swartz Sjnops. Felic. 132,
China-Straits; Rev. S. Macfarlane,
Asplenium Scolopendropsis.
Entirely glabrous ; steins creeping and rooting ; fronds simple, thinly
chartaceous or almost membranous, elongate narrow-lanceolar, more or
less sinuate-denticulate, gradually narrowed into a long wingless stipes ;
veins simple or consisting of two branches, prominent, extending in
almost parallel lines to the edge ; sori broad, in pairs, traversing the
whole width of the frond from the stout midrib to the margin ; the
indusia of each pair touching each other with their edge, but disunited
from the commencement; sporangia of each indusium separated from
those of the other in each pair by an ample empty interstice.
In the South-East pai’t of New Guinea; D’ Albertis.
Rootlets, so far as seen, distant and not much branched, either very
short or extending to simple wiry fibres sometimes over a span long.
Fronds |-1 J foot long, to about 1 inch broad, very gradually acumi-
nated ; the margin often wavy and with rather distant and irregular
denticulations ; veins very spreading. The paired sori somewhat distant
from each other ; the very tender indusia of each pair covering a width
of about one line or rather more.
This remarkable Asplenium invalidates still more the limits of Scolo-
pendrium as a genus, the reunion of the latter with the former becoming
almost unavoidable. The sori of the typic Scolopendrium vulgare
(Smith in Memoir. Acad. Roy. des Scienc. Turin, v. 421, t. 9, f. 2) are
however at the early state of growth covered by indusia, which overlap
each other, the sporangia within forming a crowded uninterrupted mass.
Specific distinctions to separate this new species from the ordinary 8colo-
pendrium are further easily derived from the total absence of a scaly
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
covering of the stipes and midrib, the long creeping stems, the generally
more tender consistence of the fronds, their narrowness, acute base. Ions*
acumen and often manifest denticulations, the very conspicuous not
almost concealed veins, and the sori approaching as well to the edge as
to the midrib. There is on record an evidently allied Scolopendrium
from the Philippine -Islands, namely S. longifolium (PresL Reliquije
Haenkean. 48, t. 9, f. 1), which Sir Will, Hooker united with the later
described S, pinnatum (J. Smith in Hook, Journ. of Bot. hi. 406), This
I have here been unable to compare ; but also Baker (in Hook, et Bak.
Syn. Fil. 247) describes the fronds as subcoriaceous ; nor is there any
tendency in Signor D’Albertis’s plant, of which we have several specimens,
to any division pinnate or otherwise of the fronds. Mettenius however
keeps the simple -fronded plant distinct as Micropodium longifolium
(Filic. Ind. ii. 233).
Other species of this genus, known as Hew Guinean, according to
Hooker, Mettenius and Baker :
A. scandens, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. hi. 408.
A. cyatheefolium, Bory in Rich. Voy. d’ Astro], Bot. 19.
A. vulcanicum, Bl. Enum. Fil. Jav. 176,
A. Nidus, Linne Sp. PI. 1079.
A. decussatum, Sw. Syn. Fil. 76.
A. tenerum, G, Forst. Prodr, 80.
A. LATIFOLIUM,
D. Bon., Prodrom. PI. Nepalens. 8.
About 15 miles inland from Port Moresby; A. Goldie.
The sender found the stem three feet high, hence mentions this as a
small treefern. It is still necessary, that from living plants the full
characteristics of A. latifolium, A. Schkuhrii and A. silvaticum should
he more clearly set forth. A. decussatum, which also bears much
resemblance, has simply pinnate fronds and anastomosing veins.
Achostichum scandens.
J. Smith in Hooker’s Joiurnal, iv. 149.
China-Straits ; Rev. S. Macfarlane,
Mettenius in Miq. Anna!, iv. 294 notes his Lomariopsis spectabilis,
which according to Baker (Hook, et Bak. Syn. Fil. sec. edit. 412)
must be regarded as one of the many forms of A. sorbifolium, L. Sp.
PI. 1069.
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPDAN
PLANTS,
BT
BAEON FEED. YON MUELLEE, I. & PH.D., F.E.S.
IV.
The following pages will give an account of a portion of the
plants, collected during the latter part of this year by Signor
D’Albertis along the Fly- River, and by Mr. A. Goldie in the
country beyond Port Moresby. The remaining portion of the
collections, kindly submitted to me by these courageous travellers,
will be noted in a subsequent part of the present publication. In
the first exploration of an unknown country, the means for
elucidating its natural products are never perfect ; hence also in
this instance some of the plants must be retained until further
searches may complete the material needful for accurate investi-
gation, especially as the lowland-jungle plants of New Guinea
stand in close relation to those of insular India, the Philippines
and Polynesia, a close analytic comparison of the species being
therefore needful. The learned Dr. Beccari has commenced to
prepare at Florence the descriptions of his Papuan Plants for
Caruel’s Giorale Botanico Italiano ; but the portion of that* im-
portant periodical, relating to the New-Guinean collections, has
not appeared or at all events not yet reached Australia. But
Dr. Beccari examined the vegetation of some of the north-western
portions of the great Papuan Island, whereas Signor D’Albertia
E
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Descnptwe Notes on Papuan Plants.
and Mr, Groldie explored in the south-east, a considerable difference
of the vegetation in the two extremes of the large island being
not unlikely.
It remains for me to record on this occasion the friendly interest
evinced by Dr, Gr. Bennett, the Kev. S. Macfarlane and the Rev.
Dr. Turner in promoting my studies of the Papuan Plants, and I
shall gladly continue these researches, to obtain a clear insight into
the relation, in which the jungle-plants of New Guinea are standing
to those of tropical Australia, where I instituted field-observations
in 1855 and 1856, while the comparison of the alpine plants of
New Guinea hereafter with the vegetation of the Australian Alps,
investigated by me fully in 1853, 1854 and 1857-1861, will have
to me a particular charm, inasmuch as the Papuan Alps are the
nearest northward to those of Australia.
Melbourne, December 1876.
NEPENTHACE^.
Nepenthes ampullaiua.
Jack in Calcutta Journ. of Nat. Hist, iy, n. 13.
Fly-River; DAlbertis.
The only specimen consists of a young plant, with pitchers on leafless
stalks. Although leaves, flowers and fruits are unknown yet from New
Guinea, there seems to be no reason to doubt the identity of the plant
with that of Malacca, Sumatra and Borneo, the species being easily
recognized by the proportionately broad peristome of the turgid ascidia
and by the narrowness of the operculum.
CAPPARIDE^.
Cleome viscosa.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 672,
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
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OLACIN^.
Opilia amentacea.
Roxburgh, Plants of Coromandel, ii. 31, t. 158. O. pentitidis, Blume, Mus. Bot.
Lugd. i. 24:6.
Port Moresby j Goldie.
Lasianthera litoralis.
Miquel, Flor. Ind. Batav. i. 792,
Fly-River; D’ Albertis.
It is supposed, that it is this species, which Blume (Mus. Bot. Lugd.
Batav. i. 250) had in view, when he described it, without having flowers
or fruits, as a Stemonurus. D’Albertis’ plant approaches Lasianthera
Australiana (F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 3 et 253), but the leaves are still
larger, the fruit is nearly double the size, and the albumen splits into
halves, while in the Queensland species the albumen remains consoli-
dated. Flowers of the New-Guinean plant have not yet been obtained ;
those of L. Australiana show naked anthers with parallel cells.
Blume and Scheffer quote as olacinaceous plants from New Guinea ;
Jodes ovalis, Bl. Bijdr. 30.
Cardiopteris lobata. Wall, list, 8033.
Gonocaryon macrocarpum, Schefier, Annales du Jard. Bot. de Buiten-
zorg, i, 13.
MELIACE.E.
TuRRiEA PUBESCENS.
Hellenius in Kongl. Swensk Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 1788, p. 26,
t. 10, f. 3.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
A lengthened description of this species was published in 1860 by
me in the essay on Fitzalan’s plants from the estuary of the Burdekin-
River. To that may be added ; Seeds sometimes black. Arillus carnu-
ient, orange-colored, clasping the inner side of the seed.
SAPINDACE^.
Carbiospeumum: Halicacabum,
Linne, Spec. Plant. 366,
Port Moresby ; Goldie,
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BIXACE^.
CoCHLOSPEimUM Gillivrayi.
Bentham, Plor. Austral, i. 106.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
It remains doubtful, whether this can specifically be separated from the
previously described C. Gregorii (F. v. M. Fragm. i. 71) ; the width of
the leaf-segments affords no characteristic, and the extent of the cleavage
of the leaves is also subject to considerable variations. Fruits of the
New-Guinean plant have not been accessible for comparison ; the flowers
are rather smaller than in the Australian typical plant. The downy
vestiture, less divided leaves and larger flowers distinguish already the
Indian C. Gossypiuin.
Flacourtia cataphracta, Boxb. in Willd. Spec. Plant, iv. 830, is men-
tioned by Dr. Scheffer as a New-Guinean plant.
RUTACE^.
Micromelum pubescens.
Blume, Bijdragen tot cle Mora van Nederlandsch Indie, 137.
Euobia hortensis.
R. et G. Borster, Char. Geuerum, 14, t. 7.
Fly-River 5 D’Albertis.
Glycosmis pentaphylla.
Correa in Annales du Musee, vi. 384.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
ANACARDIACE^.
Semecarpus Cassuvium.
Roxburgh, Flora Indica, ii. 85.
Fly River ; D’Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie,
Only leaves have been obtained.
Miquel and Scheffer add the following Papuan plants as coordinal :
Mangifera Taipan, Hamilt. in Transact. Wern. Soc.
Mangifera mucronulata, Blume, Mus. Bot. i. 201.
Buchanania macrophylla, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 185,
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
55
STERCTJLIACE.^.
Melhania incana.
Heyne in Wight et Arnott’s Prodr. 68.
Port Moresby; Rev. Dr. Turner.
Melochia corchorifolia.
Dillenins, Hort, Elth. 221, f. 217 ; Linne, Spec. Plant. 675.
Port Moresby ; Goldie,
Melochia Vitiensis..
Asa Gray, Botany of the United States Exploring Expedition, 193.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
This species is very closely allied to the Indian M. tiliEefolia (A. Gr.
1. c. ; Riedleya tiliEefolia, Cand. Prodr. i. 491), a main distinction
consisting in the coherence of the stamens only at the suddenly dilated
base, the greater part of the filaments being capillary and free. The
winged seeds distinguish our plant already from M. odorata (L. fil.
Suppl. Plant. 302), which occurs in New Caledonia and the New
Hebrides. See F. v. M. in Campbell’s New Hebrides, Append, p. 9'^
MALVACE.^.
Urena lobata.
Linne, Spec, Plant. 692.
Port Moresby ; Goldie,
SiDA SPINOSA.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 683^
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Abutilon auritum.
G. Don, Gen. Syst. of Uichlam. Plants, i. 500.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Very closely allied to A. Indicum. The shape of the stipules is
subject to considerable variation. This species occurs also in New
Caledonia, according to Mons. Puncher’s collection,
Abutilon Indicum:.
G. Bon, Gen. Syst. of Uichlam. Plants, i. 504.
Port Moresby; Rev. Br. Turner. Barnley-Island; Reedy.
Collected also in New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Hibiscus ttliaceus.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 694.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Recorded also by Achilles Richard from Port Doreh.
Hibiscus ficulneus.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 695.
Port Moresby ; Goldie,
Hibiscus Abelmoschus.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 696.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Hibiscus Notho-Manihot.
P. V, M. Pragm. Pliytogr. Austr. v. 57.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
The Papuan plant dilFers slightly from that of Queensland in the
spathaceous not bilabiate coherence of the sepals. The ripe capsule is
about 1 J inch long, ovata, 5-angular, soft-hairy, narrowly contracted at
the summit; seeds numerous, oblique 'ovate-globular, short-downy.
To this species is perhaps referable H. angulosus (Masters in J.
Hookei*’s Flora of British India, 341 ; Abelmoschus angulosus, Wallich
in Wight et Arnott’s Prodr, FI. Penins. Ind. Orient. 63). The Indian
plant according to Wight’s illustration 951 is far more hispid, but
seems to agree with ours in other respects. Thwaites (Enum. Plant.
Zeil. 26) distinguishes varieties with yellow and purple petals. The real
Hibiscus Manihot (L. Sp. 696) has longer and less acuminated lobes of
the leaves, with lesser and larger indentations and deflexed pedicels ; but
the value of all these characteristics has by reiterated examination of
copious specimens again to be tested. Roxburgh (Flora Indica, iii.
212) describes the capsules of H. Manihot (his H. pentaphyllus) as
6-seeded, but probably had 5-seeded fruit-cells in view.
Hibiscus vitifolius.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 696.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Hibiscus D’Albertisii.
(Sect. Ketmia.)
Woody, minutely star-hairy; leaves large^ cordate-roundish^ without
lobes and teeth ; stipules broad, early deciduous ; pedicels solitary, much
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
shorter than the flower ; involucel consisting of Jive cordate-lanceolar
segments ; calyx nearly twice as long as the involucel; its lobes longer
than the tube, ovate-lanceolar, overlapping at the margin, faintly three-
nerved ; petals large, beset with scattered star-hair at the outer side ;
staminal tube to near the middle without filaments and densely star-
hairy ; filaments considerably longer than the dark anthers ; styles short-
exserted.
Fly- River; D’AIbertis.
Likely a tall plant. Branches robust. Leaves measuring from 3 to
7 inches, paler beneath, almost glabrous above. Petioles 1-4 inches
long. Stipules oval-lanceolar or at the base cordate, 4-6 lines long.
Pedicels axillary, about ] inch or less long. Involucel persistent, folded
at the base. Calyx nearly IJ inch long. Petals measuring nearly
3 inches in length. Staminal column almost as long. Styles to the
extent of 2 or 3 lines exserted. Fruit unknown.
This grand species comes in its affinity nearest to H, tulipiflorus
(Hook. Icon. t. 70?) from Dominica and Guadeloupe ; the leaves are
however not obviously crenated, nor form a deep basal sinus; the flower-
stalks are very much shorter; the involucel consists only of 5 (not 7 or
8) segments, which are not narrowed at the base ; the petals are not
silky-velvety at the back. Probably the comparison of the fruit may
offer further distinctions. Our new Papuan species bears also some
resemblance to the Javan II. venustus (Plume’s Bijdrag. 71); the leaves
are however lobeless and teethless and not densely tomentose beneath ;
the flowers so far as seen are not corymbose. H, micans (Cav. Dissert.
167, t. lx.) differs already in its angular serrated leaves, shining-downy
on both sides, and in somewhat narrower segments of the involucel. H.
fragrans (Roxb. FI. Indie, iii. 195) is distinguished also by serrated leaves,
paniculate flowers, segments of the involucel ovate and towards the
base connate. H. platycalyx (Masters in Oliver’s Flora of Tropical
Africa, i. 202) differs in sinuous denticulated leaves, persistent very
narrow stipules and anthers only towards the summit of the column.
Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 694.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie.
It seems truly indigenous.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
TILIACE^.
Grewia pleiostigma.
F, V. M, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. yiii. 4.
Fly-River; D’Albertis.
The specimens from New Guinea, which precisely accord with those
of North-Queensland, are also without fruit; hence the generic position
of this plant remains still unsettled.
Dr. Scheffer gives as a coordinal Papuan plant :
ElseoCarpus edulis, Teijsm. et Binn. in Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind.
xxvii. 25.
AMARANTACE^.
Achyranthes aspera.
Liuue, spec. PJant. 204.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Alternanthera sessilis.
K. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 417.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
PLUMBAGINEiB.
Plumbago Zeilanica.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 151.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
In distributing’ the monochlamydeous orders among the Thalamiflorm
and Calyciflorse, as I have done in many recent writings, it was deemed
expedient also to place the PIumbagineEe, usually regarded as synpeta-
lous or monopetalous, along with the other orders, recognized by their
amylaceous albumen. The petals are free in many species of Statice and
Armeria, while the straight embr}^ (leaving Dianthus and Pisonia out
of consideration) places the Plumbaginem near to the Franlceniaceae
among orders with mealy albumen, these two ordinal groups being
also in other respects closely allied,
NYOTAGINE^.
Bcerhaavia biffusa.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 3.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Nyctaginese are also best left along with the curvembryonate orders,
producing amylaceous seeds and a tubular calyx.
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Descriptive Notes on Papxian Plants.
B. diffusa is a plant of the widest distribution within the tropic
circles, except in America, reaching* in Australia far beyond the tropics
to the south-coast, but advancing- neither to Tasmania nor New
Zealand. Thus it is one of the very few plants, occurring in the small
coral-islands of the Union- Gilbert- and Ellice-Groups, from whence
collections of plants are placed at my disposal by the Rev. S. T, Whit-
mee, who with a most enlightened zeal sent specially an emissary,
Mr. Jensen, to gather all the plants of these isolated specs in the wide
Pacific Ocean. Inasmuch as the vegetation of Polynesia has manifold
bearings on that of New Guinea, I avail myself of this opportunity to
record briefly the result of my examination of Mr. Jensen’s collection.
Plants of the Gilbert- (or Kingmills-) Group : Triumfetta procumbens
Forst., Boerhaavia diftusa L., a Pisonia, a Ficus, a Sida, Pemphis
acidula Forst., Guettarda speciosa L., Tournefortia argentea Forst.,
Scaevola Koenigii Vahl, Fimbristylis glomerata Nees, Lepturus repens
R. Br., Polypodium phymatodes L.
In the Tokelau- or Union-Group (comprising the Fakaofo- and
Atahu-Islands) occur besides all the above-mentioned plants, also ;
Cardamine sarmentoea Soland,, Acln^ranthes aspera L., Morinda citri-
folia L., Cordia subcordata Lam. and Asplenium Nidus L, Mr. Jensen
noted besides a Portulaca and a Pandanus. The Ellice-Group (com-
prising Nukulselse, Funafuti, Vaitupu, Nui, Nanume and Nanumanga)
contains all the plants of the two other groups, also besides : Suriana
maritima L., Hibiscus tiliaceus L., a Terminalia, Rhizophora mucronata
Lam,, Lumnitzera coccineaW. et A., Cassytha filiformis L., an Acalypha,
Pipturus velutinus Wedd., Fleurya ruderalis Gaudich., Canavallia
obtusifolia D.C., Gardenia Tahitensis D.C., Premna obtusifolia R. Br.,
an Ocbrosia, Psilotum triquetrum Sw., Pteris tripartita Sw,, Aspidium
exaltatum Sw., Lindsaya lanuginosa Wall, and a seemingly new
rubiaceous plant.
POLYGONEiE.
Polygonum barbattjm.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 362.
Near Port Moresby; Goldie.
Other Papuan plants of this order :
Polj^gonum pubescens, Blume, Bijdr. 532.
Polygonum Zippelii, Meissn. in Miq. Annal. i. 64.
Polygonum polyanthum, Bruyn in Plant. Junghuhnian 304.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Muehlenbeckia gracillima,
Meissner in Cand. Prodr. xiv, 145.
On the Fly-River ^ D’Albertis.
The specimens brought are females without ripe fruit, but so far
accord precisely with the East- Australian plant.
This is an apt opportunity to notice, that M. platyclada (F. v. M, in
Hook, Bot. Magaz. t. 6382) has recently been found in New Ireland by
the Rev. G. Brown.
URTICE^.
Ficus opposita.
Miqnel in Hooker’s London Journal of Botany, vii. 426.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
I have seen no receptacles, but the leaves are precisely like the deeply
trilobed variety of the above-mentioned Australian species,
PiPTURUS VELUTINUS.
Weddell in Annales des Scienc. Natur. quatr. serie i. 196.
Port Moresby; Goldie. Fly-River; D. Albertis.
A small-leaved variety with a very thin vestiture and unbranched
peduncles.
EUPHORBIACE^.
CODI^UM CHRYSOSTICTUM.
Rumphius, Herbar. Amboin. iv. 66.
Port Moresby; Rev. Dr. Turner.
HALORAGE^.
Ceratophyllum demersum.
Linne, Sp. Plant. 992,
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
ONAGREiE.
JUSSI,®A REPENS.
Linne, Sp. Plant. 388,
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
JuSSIJEA SUFFRUTICOSA.
Linne, Sp. Plant. 388.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
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LEGTJMINOS^.
Indigofera viscosa.
Lamarck, Encycloped. Methodiq. iii. 247.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Inbigofera enneaphylla.
Linne, Mantiss. 272,
Near Port Moresby; Goldie.
Crotalaria juncea,
Linne, Spec. Plant. 714.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie,
Yields the well known Sunn-Hemp.
Crotalaria verrucosa.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 715.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
BaUHINIA WlLLIAMSII.
(Sect. Phanera.)
Climbing; tendrils circinate, simple; leaves cordate y glabrous , quite
entire or at the apex bilobed^ 5-7-nerved from the base; racemes
densely many-flowered, brown-silky ; bracts linear-subulate y recurved ;
flowers small; calyx with jive blunt very short teeth, finally bilabiate ;
petals oval-spatular ; fertile stamens three; staminodia minute, tooth-
like ; stigma hardly broader than the style ; ovary brown-silky.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Leaves measuring 2-^-4 inches, shining above, on rather long slightly
hairy soon glabrescent petioles. Cin'hi short. Racemes almost panic-
ulate. Bracts nearly 1-^ line long. Pedicels about as long as the
calyx, beset with minute narrow bracteoles towards the middle. Calyx
about 3 lines long, articulated at the pedicel ; its tube as long as the
lips and invested by the disk. Petals scarcely above 3 lines long, silky
outside, purplish inside and there almost glabrous. Stamens glabrous.
Fertile filaments hardly longer than the petals. Anthers dorsifixed.
Style less than 2 lines long. Ovary with few ovules, gibbous at the base ;
ovules imbedded along the middle of the cavity. Stipes of the ovary
very short, inserted near the upper end of the calyx-tube. Ripe fruit
as yet unknown.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
This showy species is dedicated to the gentleman, under whose auspices
the important travels of Mr. Goldie originated. It is closely allied to
B, scandens (Willd. Sp. Plant, ii. 508); the tendrils are shorter, the
vestiture darker, the bracts narrower, the teeth of the calyx much smaller,
the petals not roundish, nor with suddenly narrowed base, nor silky
inside, the fertile stamens less elongated. Comparison of the fruit is
needed.
The only other species, which among those known to me bears any
close resemblance to ours, is one distributed under the name Phanera
rufa Benth, from the Kbasian collections of Drs. Hooker and Thomson ;
its leaves are larger and strongly nine-nerved, the tendrils are longer,
the bracts broader, while the buds of the calyx are slightly acute not
rounded-blunt.
I cannot carry further the comparisons, having not seen any well-
developed flowers of the Kbasian and Assam plant. The specific name
of the latter cannot be maintained, inasmuch as a Brazilian species was
described as B. rufa by Bongard (Memoir de I’Academ. Imper. des
Scienc. de St. Petersburg, ser, vi. vol. iv. 116).
B. piperifolia (Roxb. Plor. Ind. ii. 327) has the leaves more cleft at
the summit, the flowers corymbose and on much longer pedicels, their
indument paler, the ovary glabrous.
B. ferruginea (Roxb. FL Ind. ii, 331) differs in its leaves not quite
glabrous, cleft at the base and summit and narrower, in the paler and
scantier silk of the racemes, the larger flowers, the broader stigma and
probably in other respects.
The foliage of B. Williamsii has considerable similarity to that of
Barklya syringifolia (F. v. M. Fragm. Phytogr, Austral, i. 109, t. Hi.),
which plant might readily be transferred to the tribe of Bauhiniese, more
particularly as Oligostemon (Benth. et Hook. Gen, PL i. 570) among
Cassiece has also the upper petal placed exteriorly.
Sesbania aculeata.
Persoon, Synops. Plant, ii. 316.
Port Moresby ; Goldie,
Abrus precatorius.
Linne, Syst. Veg. ed. xii. 472.
Hear Port Moresby ; Goldie,
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
63
Flemingia lineata.
Eoxburgh, Hort. Beng. 56.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
Mucuna Bennetti.
Leaflets lanceolar-oval, glabrous ; racemes sliortj almost sessile, few-
flowered ; calyx densely beset with very short hair and very scantily
hispid ; upper lip of the calyx as long as the tube, as well as the lobes
of the lower lip narrow and acuminate ; upper petal almost deltoid above
the middle^ two-teethed at the apex, as well as the lateral petals not
bearded at the edge ; lower petals rery long, arched and upwards very
narrow ; lateral petals gradually much narrowed upwards ; anthers of the
upper stamen and of the four interjacent lower filaments much shorter
than the rest and bearded ; style almost glabrous ; ovary silky.
At the Fly-lliver ; D’Albertis.
Branches soon glabrous. Petioles up to the pair of leaflets 1-2 inches
long; lateral petiolules very short. Leaflets 3-4 inches long, about
inch broad. Peduncles, together with the racliis, only about 1 inch
long, together 'with the pedicels almost silky ; the latter crow^ded, neaily
1 inch long. Bracts early dropping. Tube of the calyx about ^ of an
inch high ; the lowest lobe attaining* ^ an inch in length, the lateral
lobes about half as long. Upper petal about inch long; lowest
petals nearly 3 inches long, their greatest wddth not over 3 or 4 lines, of
firmer consistence at the summit ; lateral petals not much shorter, but
considerably broader. Nine of the stamens united to nearly -| of their
length. Five of the anthers oblong-linear, nearly 1 line long. Stigma
short-bearded. Fruit unknown.
The flowers of this new species— which is dedicated to the main pro-
moter of Signor D’Albertis’ last expedition, Dr. G. Bennett of Sydney —
are nearly as long as those of M. macrobotrya (Hance in Walp, Annal.
ii. 422) ; the leaflets of that species are however much larger and
conspicuously acuminate, the racemes are elongated, the upper lip of the
calyx is much shorter than the tube, the lower lip is also proportionately
shorter and its teeth are broader ; the low’er petal is doubly as broad and
mucli less curved ; the other petals are also broader, but almost rounded-
blunt at tlieir summit and bearded at the edge, while the stamens are to
a greater extent disconnected. Likely also the color of the fresh petals
and the form of the pods will afford further marks of discrimination.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Except the bearded petals all the above-mentioned characteristics dis-
tinguish also M. macrocarpa (Wall. Plant. Asiat. rarioFj i. 43, t. 47).
Mucuna monosperma (Cand. Prodr. ii. 406) is easily separated by
broader leaflets on longer stalks, by more expanded corymbs, short lobes
of the calyx, straighter lower petals and perhaps its fruit. M. Novo-
Guineensis (Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz. i. 18) is also de-
scribed as producing only short teeth of the calyx, with an inflorescence
of 5 inches in length and comparatively large leaflets ; but in respect
to the latter characteristics M. Bennetti may be subject to variations.
The petals of Mr. Tijesmann’s plants are brilliantly orange. Baker (in
J. D. Hooker’s Flora of British India, ii. 185) mentions as perhaps
allied to M. imbricata (Cand. Prodr. ii. 406) the as yet undescribed M.
acuminata (Grab, in Wall, list, 5621); this seems allied to our plant
in respect to the lobes of the calyx, but the petals are shorter according
to Baker’s note.
Mucuna Albertisi.
Branchlets and petioles rusty-toinentose ; lateral leaflets oblique
rhomboid-orbicular, the terminal roundish, all slightly pubescent and
scantily hispid above, almost brown velvet-downy beneath; panicle con-
sisting of several short racemes; pedicels shorter than the calyces or
hardly as long, with them velvet-downy and partially hispid ; teeth of
the calyx shorter than the tube ; lateral and lower petals almost of
equal lengthy upper petal about one-third shorter ^ the lower petals very
narrowj gradually falcate ; the five shorter anthers woolly -bearded ; the
five longer anthers somewhat hairy ; style and ovary beset with
oppressed hair.
On the Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
Stem probably woody. Length of the petiole up to the lateral leaflets
usually about 3 inches, rarely much shorter. Stipules early deciduous
or inconspicuous. Stipellae subulate, hardly exceeding 1 line. Leaflets
of firm consistence ; their length mostly from 3 J to 5 inches ; the lateral
nerves and also the veins beneath prominent; the apex of the leaflets
often slightly acuminated. General peduncle a span long or variously
shorter. Racemes few-flowered or branched, forming almost corymbose
or cymose clusters or bunches. Bracts lanceolar, acuminate, 3-4 lines
long, early dropping. Calyx inch long; the upper lip deltoid,
usually about 2 lines long ; the lateral lobes of the lower lip hardly
above 1 line long, lanceolar- deltoid ; the lowest lobe nearl}^ 3 lines
long, narrowly semilanceolar. Upper petal orbicular-ovate; lateral
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
petals about Ij inch long-, falcate-lanceolar, towards the middle ^ of
an inch broad, short-stalked at the outward auricular base; lowest
petals at the middle scarcely 3 lines broad, gently not suddenly curved ;
all petals slightly hairy outside towards the base. Nine of the stamens
to I or more of their length united. Style towards the summit glabrous.
Stigma minute, capitellate, very finely bearded. Fruit unknown.
So far as can be judged in the absence of the pods this species
approaches nearest M, monosperma (Cand. Prodr. ii. 406 ; M. anguina,
Wall. PI. Asiat. rarior, iii. 19, t. 236), which has however shorter
peduncles, a more bristly hairiness, the flowers less distinctly racemose
and the upper part of the carinal petals suddenly ascending. M. macro-
carpa (Wall. PI. Asiat. rar. 41, t. 47) shows not the dense indument,
its leaflets are almost glabrous, the flower-clusters are less ramified, the
free portion of the peduncle is shorter, the calyces are larger on longer
pedicels, the petals are considerably broader and of a different color, the
five shorter of the anthers much less bearded.
M. macrophylla (Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 213) is quite unknown as far
as flowers and fruits are concerned.
I have without result endeavored to trace out in the very much
scattered recent literature of tropical Asiatic plants any other species,
closely allied to this one from New Guinea. Dr, Bennett informs me,
that the distinguished Italian traveller saw a third leguminous climber,
supposed to belong to this g*enus, on the Fly-River. I have discerned
only two species in the collection. It is probably the very rare species,
found in latitude 6° S., bearing blue flowers, which I have not
before me. M. Bennetti has red petals according to Signor D’ Albertis,
thus differing from M. pruriens and M. monosperma in this respect;
therefore this, if I rightly understand, is the one, about which the dis-
coverer expresses himself in rapture, as it was one of the most gor-
geous sights there in the whole floral kingdom.” He describes the red
color of the flowers as similar to that of Methonica or Gloriosa, and
adds, that the plant grew in the greatest abundance on the banks of
the Fly-River,” and that to see the pendulous masses of such flowers,
covering the trees from the base to the summit even of the most lofty
was one of the most beautiful sights to behold.” M. Albertisi, so I
learn, has yellow flowers.
The collection contains also two pliyllodinous Acacice from the Fly-
River, both distinct from A. Simsii, but neither bearing flowers or fruit
at the time of gathering.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
COMBRETACE^.
COMBRETUM GoLDIEANTJM.
Leaves large, oval, almost blunt or but slightly acuminated, quite
glabrous; spikes axillary, solitary, one-sided; flowers large; calyx
imperfectly grey-silky, with 5 very short teeth ; petals 5, silky-downy
outside ; stamens ten^ long^ crimson ,* anthers ellipsoid ; young fruit
slender, 5-anguled.
JN^ear Port Moresby; Goldie,
Branchlets very soon glabrous, hardly angular or quite terete. Leaves
opposite, 4-0 inches long, 2-3 inches broad, prominently ribbed, finely
veined, minutely and transparently dotted. Petioles -J-1 inch long.
Spikes on very short stalks, 2-4 inclies long, with numerous flowers.
Calyx at the time of flowering about \ an inch long, above the ovary
gradually dilated, the deciduous portion inside towards the middle silky-
bearded. Petals oblong-lanceolar, scarcely exceeding one line in length.
Filaments about § of an inch long. Anthers dark-red, a line long.
Style crimson, measuring nearly an inch in length. Ripe fruit as yet
unknown.
The leaves of this elegant species are much like those of C. latifolium
(Bl. Bijdr. 641), while the color of the stamens is that of C. coccineum
(Lara. Diction, i. p. 734) and the length of the filaments that of C.
micropetalum (Gaud. Prodr. iii, 19).
Among red-flowered species this new one differs from C. coccineum
already by broader leaves, not glabrous spikes, longer not suddenly
campanulate calyx, smaller petals, longer stamens and not obcordate
anthers ; from C. grandiflorum (G. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1824, p.
347) in longer leafstalks, smaller and fugacious bracts, elongated spikes
with smaller flo\vers, long exserted stamens, narrow not yellow anthers;
from C. comosum (G. Don in the Transact, of the Linnean Society, xv.
433) in larger leaves, disposition of flowers, slender limb of calyx and
smaller petals.
The only other combretaccous plant, as yet knowm from New Guinea,
is Lumnitzera racemosa, Willdenow in den Verhandlungen der natur-
forsclienden Freunde zu Berlin, iv. 186.
The flowers bring to our recollection both Metrosideros and Callis-
temon, whereas the very copious minute dots of the leaves point also to
some affinity of Combretacem to Myrtacem.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
67
LYTHRACE.E.
Ammannia Senegalensis.
Lamarck, Eucyclopedie, t. 77, f. 2.
Port Moresby ; Goldie. For synonymy see Hiern in Oliver’s Flora of
Trop. Africa, ii. 477. Closely allied to A. latifolia (L. Sp. 119), which
also as an Indian plant is mentioned by Grisebach (Flora of British
West India, 270).
Ammannia baccifera.
Liuue, Spec. Plant. 120,
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
BEGONIACE^.
Begonia Malabarica.
Lamarck, Encycl. Method, i. 393.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
The almost glabrous less denticulated leaves, the smallness of the
flowers and the truncate wings of the fruit separate this species from B.
dipetala (Grab, in Hook. Bot. Magaz. t. 2849), as well pointed out by
Alph. de Candolle (Prodr. xv. 391-392). The placentas of our plant
are however consisting of two plates, and this character would bring
the Papuan species to B. fallax (A. de Cand. Prodr. xv. 329), if the
flowers were petaliferous and the base of the fruit more acute.
Begonia spilotophylla.
Leaves from a semicordate base oblique oblong-lanceolate, long-
acuminate, minutely denticulate, glabrous, white- or pale-spotted ;
stipules subulate-linear; peduncules few-flowered; sepals 2, small, orbi-
cular; petals none ; stamensarising from the depressed torus; anthers
about as long as the filaments, their connective not produced beyond
the cells; fruit-wings three, shorter than the au'is, not extending to the
pyramidal summit of the fruit ; placentas bilaminate; seeds furrowed.
Near the Fly-Rivei' ; D’Albeiiis.
Leaves 5-9 inches long, mostly (so fas as known) from 1|~3 inches
broad. Petioles 1-1 1 inch long. Stipules 3-4 lines long. Peduncles
of the only flowering specimen seen b}^ me about 1 inch long. Second-
ary peduncles and pedicels nearly as long. Sepals measuring about ^ of
an inch. Anthers at the summit rounded-blunt. Styles not seen. Cap-
F
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
sule (an only one obtained) § of an inch long, thickened along the middle
of the valves ; the wings roundish-semirhomboid, of firm consistence,
not membranous. Seeds pale-brown, ovate, prominently few-streaked.
This elegant species bears in its spotted foliage much resemblance to
the Brazilian B. maciilata (Baddi Quaranta Plante Nuove del Brasile,
p. 27), but should systematically be placed into the section Haagea,
although the fruit-wings are not surrounding the basis and apex of the
capsule.
PASSIFLORE^.
Passiflora aurantia.
G. Forster, Florul. Insul. Austr. Frodr. 62.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Forster’s plant came from New Caledonia, from whence Labillardi^re
(Sert. Austr. Caled. 78) calls the petals purplish. Some notes on this
and allied species are offered in Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. ix. 68-69.
CUCURBITACE^.
Mukia scabrella.
Arnott in Hooker’s Journ. iii. 276.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
Luffa -^Egyptiaca.
Miller, from Luffa arabum, Alpinus et Vesting de Plantis jEgypti, 199, t. 58 et 59.
Var. leiocarpa.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
RUBIACE^.
Randia Macarthuri.
Thornless, glabrous ; leaves large^ on short petioles, lanceolar-ohovate,
slightly acuminate, acutely attenuated at the base ; stipules long, con-
nate into one of ovate-lanceolar form, free at their acuminated apex;
peduncles short, few-Howored ; calyx truncate; tube of the corolla some-
what turgid, nearly thrice as long as the calyx, unbearded inside,
almost as long as the five narrow-lanceular lobes ; anthers enclosed, long,
linear, blunt; berry large, globular, almost sessile; pericarp hard.
On the Fly-River ; D' Albertis.
Bianchlets thick. Leaves 5-9 inches long, seldom shorter, usually
between 2-4 inches broad, thinly chartaceous. Pedicels a few lines long.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Tube of the calyx 3-4 lines in length. Tube of the corolla about § of
an inch long, 3-4 lines wide. Anthers about 4 lines long. Berry
measuring nearly two inches, completely two-celled by a membranous
septum. Ripe seeds as yet unknown.
The nearest approach of this species is to R. Fitzalani (F. v. M.,
Report on the Plants from the Estuary of the River Burdekin, 12) ; but
the leaves are larger, of a thinner consistence, their surface shows not
the same oily lustre, the nerves are more numerous, the veins more
conspicuous, the stipules much larger, the flowers nearly double as long,
the lobes of the corolla proportionately narrower, the anthers also twice
as long, the fruitstalks on an only specimen almost absent. R. stipularis
(R. stipulosa, F, v. M. Fragm. vii. 47, ix. 70 et 180, non Miq. FI. Ind.
Batav. ii. 228) differs with exception of the stipules in similar notes,
besides the proportionately broader leaves and longer petioles.
I have dedicated this- noble species to the Hon. Sir. Will. Macarthur,
from whom I experienced many acts of kindness in my scientific career,
and to whose disinterested friendliness the plants of Mr. IMcLeay’s New-
Guinean Expedition, the first which I saw from that island, were placed
at my disposal.
IxoRA Pavetta.
Roxburgh, Flora Indica, i. 385.
Port Moresby j Goldie.
COMPOSITE.
Adenostemma viscosum.
R. et G. Forster, Charact. Generum 89, t. 45.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
GENTIANE^.
Limnanthemum Indicum.
Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeil. 205-
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
COTYLANTHERA TENUIS.
Blume, Bijdr. 707.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
I am not certain, whether the Papuan plant is identical with the typic
species from Java, which is only briefly defined by Blame, his descrip-
tion being merely copied by Endlicher (Gen. PI. 008), Dunal (Cand.
V 2
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Prodr. xiii. 674) and Miquel (FI. Ind. Batav. ii. 735). Asa Gray’s
diagnosis (Journ. of tlie Linnean Soc. I860, p. 23) is also very short,
The Papuan plant is quite glabrous. Fibres ot the perhaps annual root
few. Leaves in distant pairs, scalelike, membranous, deltoid, line
long. Flower only one, terminal. Calyx about 2 lines long’, to less than
half its length divided into semi-lanceolar lobes. Corolla 4-5 lines long,
cleft beyond the middle into four lanceolar segments, which are not
narrowed at their base ; their position in bud contorted-imbricate. Fila-
ments hardly a line long. Anthers from a broad and obtuse base linear-
cylindrical, basifixed. Pollen-grains when moist tetrahedro-globular,
smooth, opening at the extremity of the angles. Style 2 lines long,
thinly filiform. Stigma minute, capitellate. Ovary free, globular. Ripe
fruit unknown.
MYRSINE^.
^GICERAS FRAGRANS.
Kcenig. in Armais of Botany, i. 131, t. 3.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
convolvulace.f:.
Convolvulus parviflorus,
Vahl, Symbol, iii. 29.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
The velvet-downy variety from thence.
IPOMCEA ANGUSTIFOLIA.
Jacquin, Collectan. ii. 367.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Ipomcea eriocarpa.
R. Bro>vn, Brodroin. FI. NTov. Holl. 484.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Ipomcea hederacea.
Jacquin, Collectan. i. 124.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
APOCYNE^.
Alstonia scholaris.
R. Brown, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, i. TS'.
Port Moresby ; Goldie,
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
71
ACANTHACEiE.
Dicliptera spicata.
Decaisue in Annal. du Mas. 1834, tom. iii. 56.
Port Moresby; Gioldie.
Hypoestis floribunda.
R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 474.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
LABIATE.
Moschosma polystachya.
Bentham in Wallich’s Plantae Asiaticse Rariores, ii. 13.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Leucas flacciba.
R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov, Holl. 506.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
JASMINES.
Jasminum ^mulum.
R. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. 521,
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie.
ASPERIFOLI^.
Tournefortia mollis.
F. V. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. i. 59.
Near Port Moresby ; Goldie,
CYCADE^.
Cycas Papuana.
Petioles unarmed ; seg-m exits of tbe leaves rather short and narrow^
flat, glabrous, opaque beneath, not pungent, sessile with broad slightly
decurrent base ; fruit-rachis velvet-downy, long-stalked ; its terminating
lamina hard, rliomhoid, acuminate, toward the summit toothed, at the
apex short-laciniated, on the upper side Anally glabrescent ; fruits several,
ovate-globular, from the commencement glabrous.
On the Fly-River ; D^Albertis.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants^
This sppcies ajrrees in its teethless petioles with C. inemis (Lour.
Flor. Cocliinchin. ii. 770); in tlje witlth and the beneath not shining
lejitiets with C. media and C. angulata, (R. Br. Prodr. 348) and with
the hitter also in the form of the lamina of the female raehis. It differs
from the two last-mentioned species in the absence of teeth on the
petioles, in shorter perfectly Hat and less rigid segments of the leaves ;
from C. circinalis (L. Sp. PI. 1188) in paler, shorter and narrower leaf-
segments, which are not very conspicuously narrowed at the base, also
in a less elongated and less incised plate of the female raehis. The male
inflorescence, as yet unknown, may offer other distinctive notes. C.
pectinata of Griffith seems only known by name. Ach. Richard (Voyage
de TAstrolabe, Botanique, xxiii) mentions C. circinalis from Port Doreh.
HYDROCHARIDE^.
HYDUOCHAniS MoRsrs ranje.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 1036.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
The specimens, secured in New Guinea, are devoid of flowers and
fruit, but the anatomic structure of the leaves leads readily to the
recognition of the species, which otherwise from foliage alone might he
confounded with some Limnanthemnms.
Like Australian specimens, which were obtained at Moreton’s Bay
by Mr. Walt, Hill and at Rockhampton by Mons. A. Thozet, so the
Papuan plant also shows only a shallow sinus of the base of the leaves ;
but this characteristic proves not absolute. The plant at the Fly-River
is accompanied by Ceratophyllum demersum. Griffith found H. Morsus
ranse in India according to his posthumous papers, t. 57. H. Asiatica
(Miq. FL Ind. Batav. iii. 239j, if really referable to this genus, is at
once distinguished by its oval leaves. Bentham (FL Austr. vi. 256)
expresses some doubts, whether the Australian plant is really indigenous ;
hut as it is associated with Drosera Aldrovandi and Cahomba peltata,
neither of which was here ever cultivated, we have no reason to assume
any of these plants to he introduced.
ORCHIDE^.
Dendrobium undulatum.
R. Brown, Frodr, 332.
On the Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
The Papuan plant, known from a solitary specimen, constitutes a
variety (var. Albertisiana), remarkable for the shortness and form of the
end-lobe of the labellum ; this lobe is renate-obcordate, neither pointed
nor crisped; the outer sepals are also much more undulated.
tended observations on ampler material may possibly raise this variety
to specific rank.
Calanthe veratrifolia.
R. Brown in Edw. Bot. Regist. t. 720.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. »
A larg;e form with leaves fully a span broad and with an unusually
long- spur of the ilowers,
AMARYLLIDE^.
Eurycles silvestris.
Salisbury in the Transact, of the Hort. Soc. of London, i. 337.
Fly-River ; Albertis.
LILIACE^.
DRAC.3EISrA ANGUSTIFOLIA.
Roxburgh, Flor. Indie, ii. 155.
On the Fly-River; D’Albertis.
Schelhammera multiflora,
R. Brown, Prodr. 274.
On the Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
A full account of this rare plant has been given in the Fragm, Phytogr.
Austr. vii. 71, where the close affinity of the genus toDisporum was also
demonstrated. As many as 17 pedicels occur on Papuan specimens.
Flagellaria Inbica.
Linne, Spec, Plant. 333.
Port Moresby; Goldie,
CYPERACE^.
Cyperus distans.
Linne fil. Suppl. Plant. 103.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Found also in New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown.
The variety with less remote florets, mentioned in the Appendix to
Campbell’s New Hebrides, p. 25.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Rhynchospora aurea,
Valil, Enum. Plant, ii. 291.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
GRAMINEiE.
Phragmites communis.
Trinius, Fundam. Agrostogf. 134.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
Eriochloa punctata.
Hamilton, Prodr, Plant. Tnd. Occ. "S.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Panicum compositum.
liinnA Spec. Plant. 57.
Fly-River; D’Albertis.
At Port Moresby occurs a Panicunij closely related to P. foliosum
(R. Br. Pr. 191).
Paspalum longifolium.
Roxburgh, Flor. Indie, i. 280.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Cenchrus echinatus,
Linne, Spec. Plant. 1050.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
This is probably the C. spinifex, mentioned as doubtful from Port
Doreh by Achilles Richard.
LYCOPODIACE^.
Lycopodium Phlegmaria.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 1101.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Lycopodium squarrosum.
G. Forster, Florul. Insul. Austr. Prodr. 8G.
Fly-River; D’Albertis.
Lycopodium cernuum.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 1103.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Brought also from New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown, like the
following.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, ?5
Selaginella flabellata.
Spring, Monogr. Lycopod. ii. 174.
Flj-River; D’Albertis.
This, according to Grisebach’s definition (Flora of the Brit. West
Ind. Isl. 646) is the original Lycopodium flabellatum (L. Sp. PI. 1105).
The cilia and serratures are absent in our as in many conspecific plants
from other localities.
Selaginella caudata.
Spring, Monogr, Lycopod. ii. 139.
Fly- River ; D’Albertis.
The secondary ramification is less regularly pinnate than in the
preceding species, the leaves are larger and those of the anterior series
mucronate. I draw to this species Lycopodium D’TJrvillei (Bory, Voy.
de la Coquille, Bot. 247, t. 25) although analytic details in the illustra-
tive plate are wanting.
Selaginella caulescens.
Spring, Monogr. Lycopod. ii. 158.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
OPHIOGLOSSE^.
Helminthostachys Zeilanica.
Kaulfuss, Enum. Eil. Chamias. 28, t. 1.
Fly- River ; D’Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie.
SCHIZ^ACE.^.
Lygodium Japonicum.
Swartz, Synops. Eilic. 154.
Fly-River; D’Albertis.
Imperfect specimens of an other Lygodium occur in Signor D’Albertis’
collection. These may belong to one of the numerous forms of L. dicho-
tomum (Sw. 1. c.).
SCHIZA5A FoRSTERI.
Sprengel, Anieitung zur Kenntniss der Gewgechse, iii. 175.
Fly-River; D. Albertis.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
GLEICHENIACE^.
Gleichenia Hermanni.
R. Brown, Prodr. PI. Nov. Holl. 161.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis,
FILICES.
Acrostichdm aureum.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 1069.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Acrostichum drynaroides.
Hooker, Spec. Pilic. v. 282 ; var. sessilis.
Fly-River ; D. Albertis.
I have not ventured to describe this as a new species^ not having the
advantage of comparing the typical plant. From that as described ours
seems to differ in somewhat smaller size, and more particularly in having
the lowest portion of the frond cleft only into short and blunt lobes,
the fronds with their very dilated base being* almost sessile, thus far
resembling the sterile frondlets of Polypodium quercifolium and P. rigid-
ulum in manner of growth and reminding also of the mode of attach-
ment of the Platyceriums. The rachis of the Papuan plant furthermore
does not secede with great readine.ss from the frond. Unless the frond
narrows into an attenuated winged base under changed circumstances
or perhaps in older plants, then ours can be raised to a separate specific
position under the variety-name meanwhile adopted. The frond is
occasionally destitute of terminal fertile pinme.
Platycerium grande (J. Smith in Hook. Journ. iii. 402) was found in
New Guinea by Zippelius.
Dicksonia Papuana.
(Sect. Dennstsedla.)
Rachis and racheoles along the upper side somewhat tomentose ;
pinnae numerous, protracted into a serrated long acumen j pinnules
ohlong-lanceolar, serrulated^ slightly falcate, at the base truncate,
chartaceous, shining and glabrous on both sides, vividly gTeen beneath;
sori minute, exserted; involucre almost cupshaped ; inner valve very short
or obliterated.
Fly-River; D’ Albertis.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Fronds about 4 feet lonj^. Eachis unarmed. Middle pinnae hardly
above a span lon^. Well developed pinnules nearly an inch lon^ and
about ^ inch broad ; the fertile and sterile pinnules or segments of nearly
the same width. Veins simple or branched into two, except the lowest,
which are generally divided into three or four branches. Veinlets none.
Outer valve of the indusium in texture and color similar to the frond,
unless towards the margin ; inner valve rudimentary, membranous.
Sporangia partly protruding.
The definition of this species rests on two fronds, and it remains to be
recorded, whether this is an arborescent or stemless species. Base of
rachis yet unknown. This Papuan Dicksonia verges to the section
Deparia, the sori forming teethlike lobules along the pinnules. The
nearest approach to our new species seems to be formed by D. Smithii
(Hook. Sp. Filic. i. 80, t. 28), from which ours is easily distinguished by
larger and glabrous ultimate pinnules, with only minute serratures and
a free truncate not attenuated base, while the sori are terminating
minute lobules and are not seated in a sinus.
It is possible, that what I have regarded as a whole frond may be only
a primary pinna of a three-pinnate frond ^ in such a case the supposed
pinnules are ultimate segments, and then this must be a magnificently
fronded gigantic fern.
Another Dicksonia, verging fully to the section Microlepia of Davallia,
occurs among the plants from the Fly-Eiver. To this the name
D. delicata might be given. From D, davallioidea (R. Br. Pr. 158),
which I have lately found as far south as the Cape Otway ranges, and to
which perhaps Cheilanthes dicksonioides (Endl. Prodr. FI. Norfolk, 15)
belongs, it differs much in outline, the fronds being less compound, but
the pinnffi and pinnules longer, while the secondary pinnules are larger
and generally deeper dissected, with lobules less cleft and more distant.
From D. cuneata (Hook. Sp. Filic. 80, t. 28) it differs in a similar mode,
besides in more membranous fronds and as well as from D. Samoensis
(Bak. Synops. 462) in the deeper cleavage of the ultimate pinnules.
To arrive at a final decision in reference to the distinctions of these
species it is still needful to observe their manner of growth and also
the nature of their rhizome.
Davallia Blumeana.
Hooker, Spec. Filic. i. 177, t. Ur A.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants^
This lovely and delicate fern occurs also in New Ireland, according
to the collection formed b}'’ the Rev. G. Brown. Java and Xeyte I see
only mentioned as its known native places.
Mettenius (in Miq. Annal. iv. 277) mentions as occurring in Papua :
D. triquetra, Baker in H, et B. Syn. Fil. 93, which may be a simply
pinnate state of D. Blumeana.
D. elata (Sw, Syn. Fil. 131) occurs also on the Fly-River, and I have
it likewise from Timor.
D. Fijensis (Hook. Sp. Fil. 166, t. 55) has been brought with less
divided fronds from New Ireland. It approaches closely to D. Mamd-
tiana (Hook. 1. c, 164) according to specimens of the latter, sent by
Lady Barkly. Its precise relation to D. solida (Sw. Syn. Fil. 132)
needs yet to be further traced.
Lindsaya pectinata.
Blume, Plor. Jav. Filic. 217.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Indusium almost nephroid.
Lindsaya lobata.
Poiret, accord, to Hook, et Bak. Syn. Pilic. 111.
Fly-River; D’Albertis. Also in New Ireland (Rev. G. Brown).
Recorded from New Guinea is already by Hooker from Dr. Hinds’
collection : L. cordata, Gaudichaud, Bot. Voy. Freyc. 379, t. 16.
L. acutifolia, Desv. and L. lanceolate, Labill, Nov. Holl. Plant. Specim. .
ii. 98, t. 248, are also traced to New Guinea.
L. Amboinensis, Metten. 1. c. iv 278, occurs at Waighiou.
PtERIS SEMIPINNATA.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 1076.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
P. Zippelii (Baker, Synops. 477; Allosorus Zippelii, Miq. Annal. iv.
98) is also an inhabitant of New Guinea, as are the following :
Pteris longipes, D. Don, Prodr. FI. Nepal. 15.
Pteris excelsa, Gaudich. Bot. Voy. Freycen. 388,
Lomaria euphlebia.
Kunze in der Bot. Zeitung, yi. 52’
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Descriptice Notes 07 i Papuan Plants.
79
AsPIDIUM PTEROIDES.
Nephrodium pteroides, J. Smith in Hook, et Bak. Syn. Pil. 289.
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane.
This has been identified by Mr. Baker, who through the direct facilities
afforded him by the vast collections of ferns, brought together in more
than half a century by Sir Will. Hooker, has become the most experienced
among' the present pterilogist.
Aspibium acutum.
Schkuhr, Cryptog. Gewaschse, 32, t. 31.
Fl}^- River; D’ Albertis.
Sent also from New Ireland by the Rev. G. Brown. An allied larger
species or perhaps merely variety with exauriculated pinnse and with sori
remote from the edge inhabits also the banks of the Fly-River.
Aspibium ramosum.
Beauvois, Plore d’Oware, t. 91.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
POLYPOBIUM ACROSTICHOIBES,
B. Brown, Prodr. 146.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
POLYPOBIUM IRREGULAUE.
Presl, Reliq. Hsenk. i. 25, t. 4.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
POLYPOBIUM LiNNA3I.
Bory in Annal. des Scienc. Nat, v, 464, t, 12,
Port Moresby; Goldie. Fly-River; D’Albertis.
This was collected also at Makado (Duke of York^s Island) by the Rev.
G. Brown. The segments of the fronds secede readily from the rachis
like those of Acrostichum diynaroides, with which species to some extent
this also agrees in habit. Not always easily separated from P. querci-
folium (L. Sp. 1087).
POLYPOBIUM HERACLEUM.
Kunze in der Bot. Zeitung, vi. 1 1 7.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
The Papuan plant is slightly hairy on the under-page of the frond.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Polypodium nighescens,
Blume, Flora Javae Filic. 101, t. 70.
Fly-River ,■ D’Albertis,
Also in the collection formed by the Rev. G. Brown in New Ireland.
It requires some caution to distinguish this species from some forms of
P. phymatodes.
Polypodium lingoiforme.
Mettenius in Miq. Annal. Mus. Lugd. Batav. ii. 228.
Fly-River; D’ Albertis.
This might passingly be very easily confused with P. musEefolium (Bl.
FI. Javse Filic, 171, t. 79), which has also been brought by Signor
D’Albertis.
Polypodium decorum.
Brakenridge in Unit. Stat. Explor. Exped. Filic. 7, t. 2.
Fly-River ; D'Albertis.
Like in specimens from Ceylon, so in those from New Guinea the
well developed sori are not much immersed in the frond, but become
conspicuously exserted. The same species was found by the unfortunate
Bishop Patteson in Erromang’a. This fern differs mainly from P.
nutans (Blume, Flora Javse, 182, t. kxxvi. a) in the almost complete
absence of a distinct stipes. To Blume’s plant seems also to belong
P. contiguum (Brakenr. 1. c. 6, t. 2, f. 1 ; P. blechnoides, Hook. Sp. Fif
iv. 180). ^
Polypodium albo-squamatum,
Blume, Flora Javae Filic. 137, t. Ivii.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
A small form, some specimens altogether only a span high, the pinnm
not half as broad as in the narrowest variety, figured as P, varians by
Blume on t. Iviii,, also not caudate-acuminate.
Polypodium proliferum.
Roxburgh in Wallich’s list, 312.
Fly-River; D’Albertis.
On the same place occur also an Alsophila and a Cvathea, but without
means of studjung the structure of the stem, it is difficult to determine
the name of these and most other ferntrees.
The collections contain still two other species ; one of these, gathered
at Port Moresby by the Rev. Dr. Turner, is allied to P. barbatum (Hook.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Spec. Fil. V. 11), differing in smaller pinnse, in the soft-downy rachis
and in the sori occupying* extensively the lower page of the pinnce. The
same fern occurs in the New Hebrides, where it was found by Capt.
Fraser; but I do not find it included in the elaborate list of 132 ferns
given by Dr. M. Kuhn (in den Verliandlungen der K. K. Bot. Gesel-
schaft in Wien 1869) as occurring in these islands. The second ad-
ditional species came from the Fly- River ; it touches in its affinity
P. appendiculatum (Wall, list, 349), receding chiefly on account of the
position of the sori, not close to the midribs of the lobes.
Antrophyum reticulatum.
Kauliuss, Enum. Eilic. 198.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
A. plantagineum (Kaulf. 1. c.) has been brought by the Rev. G. Brown
from New Ireland. Mettenius (in Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. iv.
171) mentions as Papuan species: A. pumilum (Kaulf. 1. c.) and A. stric-
turn (Mett. 1. c.).
Blechnum orientale.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 1077.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
In the first edition of Linnd’s Species Plantarum the names of B.
orientale and B. occidentale are transposed, a typographic error, corrected
in the second edition. The form with narrow pinnse approaches to B.
serrulatum (Richard in Actes de la Society d^Hist. Nat. de Paris 1792,
p. 114 ; B. striatum, R. Br, Pr. 152).
ViTTARlA ELONGATA.
Swartz, Synops. Eilic. 109.
Fly-River; D’ Albertis.
V. Bcolopendrina (Sclikuhr, accord, to Hook* et Bak, Synops. 396) is
recorded from New Guinea. This is readily transferrable to the genus
Teenitis, although the veins are longitudinal and not united in meshes.
Asplenium scolopendroides.
J. Smith in Ilooker’s Journal of Bot. iii. 408.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Our specimens accord with the illustration of Cuming’s plant from the
Philippine Islands (Hook. Icon. 930). The shoitness of the stipes
distinguishes it mainly from A. Amboinense (Willd. Spec. Plant, v. 303) ;
the want of an intramarginal vein from A. Phyllitidis (D. Don, Prodr.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
FI. Nepal. 7) ; the not almost horizontal indusia from A. simplicifrons
(F. V. M. Fragm. v. 74).
Asplenium myriophyllum.
Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 90.
Fly-River ; D' Albertis.
The Papuan plant belongs to this species^ if Sprengel’s is adopted in
the meaning of Grisebach (FI. of Brit. West. Ind. 684). Nevertheless
it may prove only a form of A. cicutarium (Sw, Prodr. 130),
Aspleniun speciosum.
Mettenius, Asplen. p. 185, t. 5, f. 5.
Fly-River 5 D’Albertis,
Our plant agrees with Java specimens distributed from the Bot.
Museum of Leyden; but the Javanic plant also is destitute of the scaly
vestiture of the rachis, described b}^ Blume, nor are the sori diplazoid.
From the same river we have a variety singular for its segments
serrated only at the summit, and with the basal segments often much
and suddenly reduced in size.
Asplenium esculentum,
Presl, Reliq. H^enk. i. 45.
Port Moresby ; Goldie. Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Sometimes the indusiura is so obliterated, that this plant might be
taken for a Grammitis.
Asplenium lunulatum,
Swartz, Syuops. Pilic. 80.
Fly-River; D’Albertis.
The specific name, adopted as the oldest, does by no means well apply.
The pinnae attain a length of 3 inches.
FUNGI.
Capnouium Fuligo.
Thuemen in Litteris.
Acervules epiphyllous, forming large black indetermined spots; spores
elongate- or clavate-oval, straight or rarely somewhat curved, 4- or
rarely 3 -septate, not constricted at the dissepiments, fuliginous; para-
physes absent.
On the Katau-River, occupying the leaves of fig-trees; communicated
by the Hon. Sir Will. Macarthur.
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON PAPUAN
PLANTS,
BY
BARON PERD. VON MUELLER, C.M.G., M. & PER., P.R.S.
V
This fifth contribution towards a list of Papuan plants contains
the rest of the species, gathered last year by Messrs. D’Albertis
and Groldie, except some which were not found in a state of
develo|)ment sufficient for exact examination. Among their yet
omitted plants are species of the genera AVormia, Myristica,
Pittosporum, Dysoxylon, Harpullia, Vitis, Gomphrena, Acalypha,
Piper, Quercus, Oonnarus, Cynometra, Albizzia, Eugenia, Psycho-
tria, Ixora, Tournefortia, Coleus, Ipomoea, Sideroxylon, Costus,
Pothos, Calamus, Hyp^elyptum, Scleria, Cyperus ; besides
some representatives of other genera belonging to Anonacea?,
Menisperme^e, Rutacese, Anacardiace^e, UrticeaB, Euphorbiacete,
Laurinese, Melastome^, Myrtacese, Acanthaceaa, Gesneriacefc,
Orchideaa, Scitamineaa and Palms.
Melbourne, February 1877.
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Bescviptim Notes on Papuan Plants,
MELIACE/E.
Elindersia Papuana.
Ply- River ; D’ Albertis.
Only a solitary fruit witboiit well developed seeds has been as yet
obtained. It is not dissimilar to that of F. Bennettiana and F. Oxleyana
in tubercular roughnessj while the seeds, like those of the latter, are
also winged on both ends. It differs from F. Schottiana in fruits of
onl}^ half the size. The only hitherto recorded Extra- Australian species
is F. Amboinensis (Poiret, Encycl. Methodiq. Suppl. iv. GoO) ; it differs
from the Papuan Flindersia according to Rumphius’s illustration (Am-
boinsch Ivruid-Boek, iii. 201, t. cxxix.) in smaller and therefore more
numerous and also more acute tubercles of the fruit- valves ; it belongs
to that series of species, which have their leaflets provided with con-
spicuous stalklets. Our Papuan plant received a temporary specific ap-
pellation, to place it on record, until foliage and flowers can be compared
with that of its congeners. The Amboina Flindersia is described as
pi’oducing fruits 5-G inches long, though the plate represents them only
about half that size ] the leaflets are glabrous.
TILIACE.E.
SlOANEA PARADISEARUM.
(Sect. Ecliinocarpus.)
Branchlets glabrous ; leaves oblong-oval, narrow-acuminate, quite
entire, on very short petioles ; ‘eery large^ broadly oval, four-valved,
red outside, thick-woody, densely invested by short closely set setaceous
prickles ; seeds numerous in each cell ; cot^dedons much thinner than
the albumen.
Upper Fly-River; B’ Albertis.
A tree, attaining a height of 40 feet. Petioles 2-3 lines long.
Leaves scattered, 4-6 inches long*, inches broad, blunt at the
base, glabrous. Flowers unknown. Fruit nearly 4 inches long ; the
innumerable bristles 1-1 J lines long. Seeds forming two rows and
numbering about IG in each cell, sessile, descending, oval-elliptical,
angular from mutual pressure, entirely included in a yellow or orange-
colored ariilus, thus rather above J an inch long. Cotyledons almost as
long as the albumen ; radicle extremely short.
85
DescrqHice Notes on Papiuin Plants,
Tins notable species ap])roacbes in size of the fruit closely to S.
Jamaicensis (Hook. Icon. C03-G96), thus far excelling any of the
Sloaneas of the eastern hemisphere, so far as they are known, in the
magnitude of the fruit. The petioles are much shorter than those of
S, Jamaicensis, the covering- bristles are finer and of less length, while
the seeds are more numerous, closely packed along- the whole cavity and
not of almond-size.
Bentham and J. Hooker (Gener. Plant, i. 239) ascribe to the genus a
1-4-seeded capsule 5 but Sir Will. Hooker found already 8 or more
seeds in S. Jamaicensis, and he figures also a 5-valved fruit. The
nature of the wood of the Pa|)uan species should be tested, that of the
Jamaica Sloanea being* so hard as to have given rise to the name Brake-
Axetree. The seeds of the Papuan plant are probably also of agreeable
taste. I have given this plant its particular specific name, because it
cames from the forest-haunts of the birds of Paradise.
The Rev, Dr. Turner has brought a Corchorus from Port Moresby,
but the plant is not in fruit for specific determination.
GTJTTIFERH]:.
Gaucinia subtilinervis.
Glabrous ; branchlets quadrangular ; leaves coriaceous, oval-lanceo-
late, with a short and blunt acumen ; nerves and veins of the leaves
extremely subtle, almost concealed^ petioles short; sepals four, very
unequal; stigma undivided, depressed, sessile, orbicular; berry globular,
eight-celled.
Ely- River; D’ Albertis.
Leaves 3-5 inches long, 1-1 J inch broad. Petioles of J- an inch or
less length. Flowers unknown, except the persistent sepals, the two
larger of which measuring \ an inch, the two others about half the
size. Stigma fiat, rough, of about f of an inch diameter. Fruit
measuring about inch. Seeds brown, much compressed.
Foliage and fruit are not unlike G. Cowa (Roxh. FI. Indie, ii. G22),
hut the stigma places the Papuan species near to G. anomala (Planch,
et Trian. mem. Guttif. 174) and G. Maingayi (.J. Hook. Flor. of British
Ind, i. 2G7), both of which Lave fewer-celled fruits. Ours has also some
resemblance to G. multifiora (Champ, in Hook. Ivew Miscell. iii. 310),
but the leaves are not so conspicuously veined, the sepals are not equal
in size, and the fruit of the Hongkong plant remained hitherto un-
known.
86
Descriptive Notes on Pap^(an PlaJits,
Full comparisons with the imperfectly described G. rostrata (Benth.
and Ilooh. Gen. i. 174 3 Discostig*ma rostraturrij Hassk. Cat. Hort.
Bogor. 212) require yet to be instituted ; but the bicelled ovary removes
it already from our new plant. Another evidently allied species is G.
rigida (Miq. Prodr. Flor. Sumatran. 493), the leaves of which are
described as rounded at the base, and the internal structure of its fruit
is unknown.
Other Papuan Guttiferee are :
Garcinia picrorrhiza, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 209.
Garcinia Teysmanniana, Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Biiitenz. 7.
VINTFER^.
VlTIS TRIFOLIA.
Linnc, Spec. Plant. 203.
Port Moresb}^ ; Goldie. Fly-River j D’Albertis.
CARYOPIIYLLE.F.
DrY3IAR1A diandra.
Plume, Bijdr. tot de PI. van Ncdcrl. Indie, 63.
Leaves glabrous, rhomboid- or cordate-orbicular, conspicuously stalked ;
stipules fringy-cleft ^ cymes paniculate, with elongated glandular-powdery
peduncles ; flowers small ; sepols only slightly scarioxis, their middle nerve
forming a narrow pulvendent heel; petals deeply cleft into two seg-
ments; stamens usually two; style almost none; stigmas
valveless or imperfectly two-vahed ; seeds large^ one rarely two, closely
filling the cavity of the pericarp, black, opnque, granular-scabrous.
JNear Port Moresby ; Goldie.
From inspection of original material 1 find this to be the D. cordata of
Thwaites’s Enum. PI. Zeilan. 25, and of J. Hooker’s Flora of British
India, i. 244 ; to this may also belong the plants of Bentliam’s Flora
Ilongk. 22, and of Oliver’s Flora of Tropic Africa, 143 ; yet it is not
specifically combinable with the real D. cordata (Willd. in Roem. and
Schult. Syst. Veg. v. 406), which is frequent in the warm regions of the
western hemisphere, but rare and perhaps introduced only in the eastern.
That typic plant has a tendency to hairyness, has broader very scarious
calyces, not distinctly keeled along the sepals, has longer stigmas and a
deeply three-valved capsule with several minute pale-brown seeds.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
The Javanic plant was cautiously disting'uished by Miquel (Plant.
Junghuhn. i. 391) as var. Indica. The specific name, given by Bliime,
would become ambiguous unless it coincides with the homonymous appel-
lation, bestowed by Macfadyen on an Antillan plant, the Holosteum
diandrum (Swartz Prodr, Deser. Yeget. Ind. Occid. 27), which however
is reduced as a variety to D. cordata by Grisebach (FI. of the British
West Indian Islands, 56). Should further researches prove Blume’s
and Macfadyen’s plants distinct, then I would propose the species-name
D. gerontogea for the former. Our species verges in structure of calyx
somewhat to Polycarpon ; its wide dispersion through the tropic zone of
the eastern half of the globe leads to anticipate, that this species will yet
be found in North Queensland. A thorough systematic revision of all
congeners is needed.
AMARANTACEiE.
Euxolus interhuptus.
Moquin, in Caud. Prodr. xiii. Part ii. 272.
Port Moresby ; Rev. Dr. Turner.
EUPHORBIACEiE.
Phyllanthus Urinaria,
Linue, Spec. Plant. 982.
Port Moresby 5 Goldie.
Phyllanthus Niruri.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 981.
Darnley’s Island ; Reedy. Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Mallotus ricinoides.
J. Mueller, in Linuaja xxxiv. 187.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
Mallotus Philippinensis.
J. Mueller, in Liniisea xxxiv. 196.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
LEGUMINOSiE.
Desmodium Gangeticum.
Candolle, Prodr. ii. 327.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
It was also found in Ne\T Britain by Mr. C. Walter, while collecting
there for Baron Anthole von liueg’eL
Desmodium dependens.
Blmne, in Miq. Plor, Ind. Batav. i. 248.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
This also was found in New Britain.
Phaskolus Max.
Linno, Spec. Plant. 725.
Port Moresby ; Rev. Dr. Turner.
Also in New Britain. The specific name here adopted is the oldest.
Doliciios Lablab.
Linne, Spec. Plant. 725.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
A variety with small pods, not conspicuously rougli at their edge.
MYRTACE.D.
Melaleuca Leucadendron.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
ARALIACE.ZE.
CiSSODENDRON AuSTRALIANUM.
Secmann, Journal of Botany, iii, 201.
Var. disperma; fruits two-celled and two-seeded.
Fl}'-River ; D’ Albertis.
The specimens are all in fruit, but so far show no differences to
distinguish them from the Queensland species, except in the number of
the cells and seeds of the fruit.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. Sd
By this variety or perhaps new* species an approach to the genus
Sciadoj)anax is estahlishecl. The albumen is rather sinuous and wrinkled
than really ruminate, whereby a clearer distinction of Cissodendron from
Iledora can be drawn. The testa also is of bony hardness not thin as
in the last mentioned genus. The minute embryo lodges at the summit
of the albumen and is proportionately much shorter than that of
Iledera.
The following araliaceous plants are from New Guinea on record :
Brassaia macrostachya, Seem. Eevis. of the Hederac. 10.
Tetraplasandra paucidens, Miq. Annal. Mus. Bot. Lugd, Bat. i, 4.
Polyscias Papuana, Seem. Revis, 5G.
Osmoxylon Amboinense, Miq. Annal. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 5,
Panax Zippelianum, Miq, 1. c. 15,
Arthrophyllum pinnatum, Seem. 1. c. 102.
Trevesia insignis, Miq. 1. c. i. 220.
Trevesia Novo-Guineensis, Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz.
i. 20 .
IIeptapleurum pimbriatum.
Leaves simply digitate ; stipules disseeted into copious narrow fringes ;
leafets cliartaceous, 5-6, on long stalklets, glabrous, broadly lanceolate,
acuminate, quite entire, at the base acutely narrowed 5 racemes spilce-
like, the racliis rigidly tomentose ; fruits verging’ from an oval to a
roundish form, 5-seeded, the vertex conspicuously emersed.
On the Ply- River ; D’ Albertis.
Petioles attaining a length of 1^ feet. Stipules dry, long-persistent,
broadly expanded, J inch long. Leaflets 5-8 inches long, 1q-2^ inches
broad, with ascending conspicuous lateral nerves, finely net-veined,
slightly rough from minute dots; their stalklets 1 - 2 |- inches long.
Flowers unknown. Spikes about a sj)an long. Pedicels less than a line
long or almost obliterated. Fruits aborxt 2 lines long, crowded at
intervals along the racliis, terminated by a very short thin style.
Pyreme obliquely narrow-elliptical, slightly turgid, smooth, hardly
longer than 1 line.
I am not acquainted with any other Heptapleurum, which is provided
with similar stipular fringes, except Trevesia Novo-Guincensis, which
with all other Trevesias is transferable to IIeptapleurum. D’ Albertis
collected a second species of this genus, but without fruit.
90
DescriptAve Notes on Papuan Plants.
RUBIACEiE.
Myrmecodia echinata.
Gaudichaud, Yoy. Freycinet. t. 96.
Fly-River; D’Albertis.
In Mr. Goldie’s collection from Port Moresby are fragments of an
Uncaria.
COMPOSURE.
Blumea hieracifolia.
Candolle, Prodr. v. 442.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
SCROPHULARIN^.
VandELLIA CRUSTACEA.
Bentliam, Scrophulariu. Iiidic. 35.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis,
Vandellia pedunculata.
Bontliam, Scropliularin. Indie. 37.
Port Moresby; Goldie.
LABIATiE.
OciMUM SANCTUM.
Linne, Mantiss. Plantar. 85.
Port Moresby; Rev. Dr. Turner.
The same species I have seen from New Britain^ where also 0. Basi-
licum (L. Sp. 50?) occurs.
Plectranthus parviflorus.
Ilenckel von Bonnersmarck, Adumbrat. Plant. Hort. Halens. 1806.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
VERBENACE.E.
Clerouendron floribundum.
R. Brown, Prodr. Plor, Nov. Holl. 511.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
The specimens are in fruit only, but so far agree with the broad-
leaved form of the Australian plant.
Descriptive Notes o)i Papuan Plants,
91
Clerodendron Tracyanum.
E. V. Mueller, in Benth. Elor. Austr. v. 62.
Flj-River; D’ Albertis.
Flowers could not be obtained, but otlierwise it seems not to differ
from the Queensland typical plant,
Miquel and Scheffer mention as Papuan Yerbenacese :
Clerodendron Papuanum, Scheff. Annal. du Jardin de Buitenz. 41.
Callicarpa erioclona, J. C. Schauer in Cand. Prodr, xi. 643.
Gmelina lepidota, Scheff. 1. c. 41.
Faradaya Papuana, Scheff. 1. c, 43.
Avicennia officinalis, L. Sp. PI. 110.
SOLANACE^.
SOLANUM REPANBUM.
G. Forster, Elorul. Insul. Austr. Prodrom. 18.
Fly-River ; D’AIbertis.
Differences between the Papuan plant and that figured by Seemann
(Flor. Vitiens. xxxviii.) are not observable, except that the branchlets
are minutely aculeolate.
CONVOLVULACE^.
Ipomcea pes capr^,
Roth, Nov. Plantar. Spec. 109.
Port Moresby ; Goldie.
Signor D’Albertis brought from the Fly-River an Tponioea, allied to
I. cymosa (Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. iv. 241), but differing in its
broadly cordate leaves and entirely glabrous corolla ; the fruit is as yet
unknown.
APOCYNE.®.
Tabern.2emontana pubescens.
R. Brown, Prodrom. FI. Nov. IIoll. 468.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
A variety with leaves protracted into a long acumen. Fruit not yet
seen.
Alstonia uongissima.
Glabrous ; leaves large 3-4 in a whorl, decurrent into a very short
petiole, lanceolar-oval, with very spreading nerves, hardly paler heneath;
fruits very long ; cilia longer than the seeds.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
u
Q'2 Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Leaves about a span long', 2-3 inches broad, of cliartaceous consistence,
distantly ribbed, almost equally g'reen on both sides. Elowers unknown.
Fruits about 1 1 foot long*, ^ inch thick. Seeds scarcely 3 lines long,
very slightly downy, rounded-blunt at the base, narrow-acuminate at
the apex, on both extremities softly bearded.
I failed to identify this among Indian species, but it seems nearest to
A. spectabilis (R. Browm in the Mem. of the Wernerian Society, i. 75).
MYESINEiE.
MiESA HAPLOBOTRYS.
F. v, Mueller, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. v. 161,
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
The Papuan and Australian plants seem identical. The width of the
leaves is particularly variable. The infloresence is almost spicate.
M^sa protracta.
Glabrous, leaves lanceolate^ gradually long-acuminate^ slightly wavy
at the margin, decurrent into the petiole ; racemes simple, axillary and
terminal, shorter than the leaves, solitary or 2 or more together; pedicels
as long as the floAvers or somewhat longer, twice or thrice as long as
the bracts; corolla hardly half exserted, as well as the calyx 5-cleft;
fruit ovate-globular, about as long as the pedicel.
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Leaves 4-7 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, cliartaceous, on a petiole
of less than one inch length ; their dots extremely minute ; pellucid
lines almost absent. Racemes 3 inches long or variously shorter.
Corolla hardly above one line long; its roundish lobes nearly equalling
the tube in length. Fruit scarcely two lines long.
This Mmsa verges towards M. acuminata (A. de Candolle, Prodr, viii.
77) from Nepal, but the leaves ^re longer and not quite entire; besides
there are likely other differences between them, which D. Doffs
diagnosis (Prodr. Flor. Nepal 149) does not admit of pointing out
It comes also very near M. Novo-Guineensis (Scheff. Annal. du .Tardin
Bot. de Buitenz. 32); the leaves of the latter are considerably larger,
and the flowers are described as three times as long as the calyx. Other
Myrsinem of Papua are :
Mit'sa verrucosa, Scheff. Commentat. de Myrsinac. Archip. Indie. 10.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, U3
Msesa laevigata, ScbefF. 1. c. 17.
Maesa mollissima; A. de Cand. in tlie Transact, of tlie Linn. Soc. xvii-
134.
Myrsine densiflora, Sclieff. Comm. 70.
EBENACE.E.
Maba elliptica.
R. and G. Forster, Charact. Generum, 122, t, 61.
Fly-River ; D’ Albertis.
The plant from this locality has its fruits covered by a rust-colored
velvet. It is on the authority of Hiern (Transact, of the Cambridge
Philos. Society, xii. 122), that I place D’ Albertis^ plant in this specific
position, that able monographer regarding the presence or absence of
the vestiture of the fruit of no avail for specific characteristic. Our
specimens are without flowers. Plants of this order, producing Ebony-
wood, occur doubtless in New Guinea.
CONIFERS.
Nageia Rumphii.
Podocarpns Rumphii ; Blume, Eumphia ili. 214.
New Guinea ; Zippelius.
This is mentioned on the present occasion to refer to another Nageia,
the fruits of which were brought from the Fly-River by Signor DAlbertis,
to whom the species may be dedicated, should it prove new. The nut
is globular like that of N. Blumei (Gordon, Pinet. 135, Podocarpns
agathifolia ; Blume, Rumphia iii. 217, t. 173), but slightly larger, the
receptacle a good deal thicker and the embryo rather more like that of
N. bracteata (Podocarpns bracteata, Blume Enumerat. Plant. Javse, 88).
I see no reason why the genus Nageia should be discarded in favor of
Podocarpns ; the former was fully established by Gsertner already in 1788
(de Fructib. et Seminib. i. t. 39) on N. Japonica, whereas L'Heritier’s
genus Podocarpns seems really to have been published only in 1806
(Labillardiere, Novae HolL Plant. Specimen ii, 71, t. 221). Suum
cuique.”
As yet no other Coniferse are on record from New Guinea, except
Nageia thevetiaefolia (Podocarpns thevetiaefolius, Bl. Rumphia ii. 213)
and the Araucaria mentioned by Dr. Beccari ; but it may be expected
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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
that this order of plants is well I’epresented in the colder altitudes of the
island. Of the allied Gnetacese we know as Papuan : Gnetum Gnemum,
L. Mantiss. 125 and Gnetum latifolium^ Blume Nov. Plant. Famil. 30.
The occurrence of Nag'aias within the tropics indicates usually an
approach to elevated regions. From such probably came also the acorns
of two species of Quercus^ brought by Signor D’AlbertiS; and which
may have been washed by mountain-torrents to the upper waters of the
Fly-River, or may perhaps have been carried as articles of food by the
natives down from the mountains.
PANDANE^.
Freycinetia Gaudichaudi.
E. Brown, in Horsfield’s Plantaa Javan. Rarior. 31, t. ix,
Fly-River ; D’Albertis.
Blume and Miquel record from New Guinea:
Freycinetia scandens, Gaudich. Voy. Freycenet. Bot. 432, t. 42.
Freycinetia marginata, Blume, Rumphia i. 159.
The specific position of the Papuan Pandani remained hitherto un-
ascertained.
DESCEIPTIYE T^OTES OY PAPUAN
PLANTS,
BARON FEED. VON MUELLER, 0 . 1 . 0 ,, M. & PH.I)., P.R.S.
APPENDIX.
Piipuan Plants, recorded by Blurne, Miquel and Scheffer, not yet
mentioned specifically in the foregoing pages.
Nymph^ace^.
Nymplma gigantea^ Hook. Bot. Magaz. 4647.
Anonace;e.
Polyalthia Idvta^ Benth. et Hook, Gen. PI. i. 956 ) Monoon hirtuin,
Miq. Annal. ii. 16.
Polyalthia macropoda, Benth. et Hook. 1. c. ; Monoon macropoduni,
Miq. 1. c.
Polyalthia chloroxantha, Benth. et Hook. 1. c. 5 Monoon chlorox-
antlium, Miq. 1. c.
Polyalthia glauca^ Benth. et Hook. 1. c. ; Monoon glaucurn, Miq. 1. c.
Uvaria Rosenbergiana, Scheff. Ann. Jai-d. Buit. 2.
Popowia Novo-GuineensiSy Miq. Ann. ii. 21.
Orophea ovata, Scheff. Ann. Jard. Buitz. i. -3.
Orophea aurantiaca, Miq. Ann. ii. 25.
Goniothalamns longirostrisy Scheff. Jard. Buitz. 4.
Goniothalarmis caloneurus, Miq. Ann. ii. 34.
Artahotrys inodora, Zipp. in Miq. Ann. ii. 41.
Phrpavthtis nntanSj J. Hook, et Thoms. Flor. Ind, i. 147.
I
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IJesovipthe Notes on Papnan Plants.
MyKISTICK.53.
Mynstica stibcordata, BL Rumph. 186.
Myristica fatua^ Houtt. Nat, Hist. ii. 33?.
Myristica tuhiflora, Bl. Rumph. 182, t. 56.
Mynstica suhahdata, Miq. Ann. ii. 4?.
Myristica lepidota^ Bl. Rumph. 183^ 57.
Myristica morindifolia^ Bl. 1. c. 186.
Myristica nesophila^ Miq, Ann. ii. 49.
Myristica pinnmformisy Zipp. in Miq. Annal. ii. 49.
Myristica, Aruana^ BL 1. c. 191.
Myristica Zippeliana, Miq. 1. c. 50.
Myristica suhtilis^ Miq, 1. c. 50.
Myristica Papuana^ SchefF. Annal, du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz. 46.
Menispermete.
Stephania Zippeliana, Miq. Annal, iv. 86.
Pycnarrhena Novo- Guineensis, Miq. 1. c. iv. 88
CMccnandra ovata, Miq. 1. c. iv. 84.
Anamirta panicuJata, Colebr. in Transact. Linn. Soc. ziii. 52.
Laurace^.
Hernandia Sonora, L. Sp. PI. 981.
Cinnamomum xanthoneurum, Bl. in Tijdschr. vor Naturg-esch. i. 66.
Bcilschmiedia caloneura, SchefF. Annal. du Jardin. Bot. de Buit. 47.
Tetranthera ohscura, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 886.
Tetranthera macropliylla, F. v. M. ; Cylicodaphne macrophylla, Bl.
Mus. Bot. Lugd. ii. 14.
Tetranthera amaro, Nees Syst. Laur, 551.
Litscea latifolia, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 349.
CAPPARlDEiE.
Capparis Zippeliana, Miq. Tllustr. de Flor. de LArchip. Ind. 25 xiv.
PiTTOSPOKEjE.
Pittospornm chelidospermum, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 160, fig*. 33
Pittosporum Novo-Guineense, Miq. Illustr. 79.
Pittospornm sinuatum, Bl. 1. c.
Pittosporum Rumpliii, Putterl. Synops. Pittospor. 7.
0 ?
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
POLYGALACE^E.
Polygala liyalina^ Bentli. et Hook. Gen. Plant, i. 974.
Ternstroemiace^.
Saurauja brevirostrisy Zipp. in Miq. Annal. iv. 100.
Saurauja altissima, Zipp. in Miq. Annal. iv. 108.
Smtratija tristyla, Cand. Memoir. Soc. Genev. i. 420.
Saurauja Novo-Guineeiisis, SchefF. Anna!, du Jard. Buit, i. 7.
Saurauja monadelphay SchefF. 1. c. 8.
Eurya tricJiocarpay Kortlials in Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 114.
DlPTEROCARF>EiE.
Ardsoptera polyandra^ Bl. Mas. ii. 42.
Geraniaceae.
Impatiens latifoliay L. Sp. PL 937.
Impatiens Zippelii, Miq. Illustr. de Floi^e de LArchipel Indien^ 94.
Tiliaceae.
ElmoearpxLs edulisy Teysm. et Binn. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxvii. 25.
CELASTRINAi:,
Salacia prinoides, Cand. Prodr. i. 571.
Salaeia sororia, Miq. Annal. iv. 151.
Hippocratea paucifloray Miq. Ann. iv. 154.
1 Hippocratea Zippeliana-y Miq. Ann. iv. 153.
Rut ACE a:.
Melanococca tomentosa, BL Mus. i. 236.
SlMARUREA-:.
Soulamea amaray Lam. Diet, i. 449.
Anacaruiace.e.
Semecarpus Cassuviuniy Spreng. Syst. i. 936.
Odina speciosay Miq. Ann. iv. 023.
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Descriptive Notes on Fap-uan Plants.
Mangifera Taipan, Hamilt. in Transact. Wern. Soc.
3Iangifera mncronulata, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 201.
Burserace^:.
Canarium rigidum, Zipp. in Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. i. part ii. 648.
Canarium asperum^ Benth. in Hook. Bond. Journ. ii. 215,
Canarium angustifolnim, Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 226.
Oanophyllum falcatum^ BL Mus. Bot. i. 230.
Thymelea^.
Drymispermum urens^ Reinw. Sylloge in der Regensb. Bot. Zeit.
1828, 15, t. 2.
Drymispermum macrocarpum, Scheff. Annal. du Jard, de Buit. 46.
Rhamnaceje.
Smythea Novo-OuineensiSy SchefF. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buiten-
zorg', i. 14.
NyCTAGINEA£.
Pisonia Brunoniana^ Endl. Prodr. Flor. Insul. Norfolk, 43.
Pisonin caulifloray Scheff. Observ. Phytogr. iii. 95.
Casuarine.e.
Casuarina eqtdsetifolia, R. et G. Forst. Char. Gen. Plant 103, t. 52,
PiPERACEiE.
Piper fragile, Benth. in Hook. Journ. ii. 234.
Piper Barclayanum, Gas. de Cand. Prodr. xvi. 336.
Piper caninvm, Blume in Verb, der Bot. Genootsch. xi. 214.
Piper P'orstenii, Cas. de Cand, Prodr. xvi. 348.
Piper metliysticum, G. Forst. Plant. Escul. 76.
RoSACEA5.
Rubus MohiccanuSy L. Sp. PI. ed. sec. 707.
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 99
Melastomace^>.
Osbeckia Australiana, Naud. in Annal. des Scienc. Nat. ser. trois,
xiv. 59.
Melastoma 3Ialahathricum, L. Sp. PL 390.
Medinilla hracteata, BL Bijdr. 219.
Medinilla Papitana^ Scheff, Ann. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz, 24.
Astronia macrophylla^ BL Bijdr, 1080.
Memecylon pauciflorum, BL Mus. Bot. 257.
lllllZOPHORE^.
Ceriops Candolleana\ Arnott in Annals of Nat. Hist. i. 3(33,
Kandelia Pheedei^ Wight et Arn. Prodr. i, 310.
Phizopliora conjugata, L. Sp. PL 443,
Rhizophora mucronata, Lam. Diet. vi. 169.
Hamamelidea-:.
Liquidamhar Altingia, BL FL Javtie, 8, t. 1-2.
SAMYDACEiE.
Casearia salacioides^ BL Mus. Bot. Lugd. i. 252.
Casearia clutmfoVia^ BL 1. c. 255.
CuGURBITACEiE.
Melotkria Rumphiana^ Scheff. Ann. du Jard. Bot. de Buitenz. 25.
LoRANTHACEiE.
Visewn orienlale^ Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 737.
Lorantlms verticillatus ^ Dendrophtoe verticillata, Scheff. 1. c. 27.
Caprifoliace^.
Lonicera ChinensiSj Wats. Dendr. Brit. t. 117.
Vihuimum Zlppelii, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 122.
Logan 1ACEA3.
Geniostoma Lasiostemony BL Mus. Bot. i. 239, fig. xxxv.
Fagr(m voJubiliSy Jack, in Roxh. FI. Ind. ii. 36.
100
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Fiujrcea coarctata, Bl. Run]])b. ii. 33.
Fagreea rosfA'ata, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 168.
Fagrcea cuspidata^ Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 170.
Bignoniaceje.
Tecoma dendrophila^ Blume Rumpliia, iv. 35, t. 190.
Tecoma leptophylla^ Bl. 1. c.
Tecoma CeramensiSy Te^^sm. et Binn. in Miq. Annul, i. 197.
CoNVOLVUlACEiE.
Ipomoea dissecta, Willd. Sp. PL i. 880.
LepistemonJiavescenSj BL Bijdr. 722,
ACANTHACEiE.
Ihiellia repanda, L. 8p. PL ed, sec. 886.
Peristrophe tinctoria, Nees in Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rariorj iii. 103.
MvRSINEiE.
JEgiceras jiondum, Roein. et Sclmlt. Syst. Veg*. iv. 512.
SAPOTACEiE.
Chry Sophy Hum Javanicum, Steud. Noinencl. Bot. ed. secund. 359.
Payenia Bumm, Sclieff, Annul, du Jard. de Buit. 33.
Lticuma Cocco i Bassia Cocco, Scheff. 1. c. 3d.
OLEAOEAi:.
Cliionanthus ramijiorits, Roxb, PL Indica, i. 107.
Asclepiade.^.
Tylophora cvspidata, Zipp. in Annul, des Scienc. Nat. ix. 274, t. 10.
IJoya Ariadna, Decaisne in Cand. Prodr. viii. 635.
Iloya apiculata, ScbefF. Annul, du Jard. de Buitenz. 37.
Pandanace^.
Nipa fruticans, Wiiruib in Verb. Batav. Genootscb. i. 340.
101
Descrvptive Notes 07i Papuan PJayiis.
AnoiBEii:.
Cryptocoryne ciliata, Fisch. in Schott. Melet. 10.
Amorphopliallus campanulatus, Bl. in Annal. du Mus. iii. 800.
Xenophya hrancifolia, Schott, in Miq. Annal. i, 124.
Rhapliidophora amplissiwa, Schott. 1. c. 129.
RhapMdopliora Zippeliana, Schott. 1. c.
Pothos Zippelii, Schott. 1. c. 131.
SciTAMINEiE.
Heliconopsis AmhoinensiSj Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. iii. 590.
Alpiniapuhiflora, Benth.; Hellenia pubiflora ; Benth. in Hook. Bond.
Journ. ii. 235.
Alpinia macrantlia^ Scheff. Annal. du Jard. Bot. de Buit. 50.
Alpima Papvana, Scheff. 1. c.
Hedychmm lanatum, Scheff. 1. c. 57.
Phrynmm maximum^ Bl. Enum. i. 37.
Phrynium. capitatum^ Willd. Sp. PI. i. 17.
Phrynmm gigantetwi, Scheff. 1. c. 58.
DiOSCORIDEAi:.
Dioseorea vulgaris^ Miq. FI. Ind. Batav. iii. 572.
Amaryllidea^:.
Crimimi Asiaticum, L. Sp. Pi. 292.
COMMELYNACEAi.
Forrestia hispida^ Ach. Rich. Voj. D’Astrol. Bot. ii. 2, t. 1.
Pallia thyrsifloraj Endl. Gen. Plant. P25.
PALMACEA5.
Areca macrocalyx, Zipp. Bijdr. Nat. Wetens. v. 178.
Kentia procera, Bl. Rumph. ii. 94^ tab. 100, 100.
Orania regalis, Zipp. in Alg’. Kiinst-en Letterb. 1829, p. 285.
Ptychosperma angyistifolia, Bl. Rumphia, 1. c.
Ptychospcrma oliciformis, Mart. 1. c. ii. 122, t. 150.
Ptychosperma appendiculata^ Bl. Rumphia, ii. 122, t. 84 et 119.
Ptychosperma comimmiSj Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 31.
102
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants.
Caryota furfuracea^ BL in Mart. Palm. 195.
JAcuala pendentifiora, ^^PP* Bijdr. Nat. Wet. v. 178.
Lictiala Ilumpliii, Bl. Rumph. ii. 41^ t. 89.
Cocos nucifera, L. Sp. Plant. 1188.
Kortlialsia Zippelii, Bl. Humph, 171, t. 130.
Calamus harhatus, Zipp. in Bijdr. Nat. Wet. v. 178.
Calamus heteracanthus^ Zipp. 1. c.
Metroxylon Rtmplm^ Mart, Palm. 214 et 313, tab. 102 et 159.
Alctroxylon filarCj Mart. Palm. 216 et 343.
Equisetace^
Equisetum dehile, Roxb. in Vauch. Monograph, des Presles, 1822.
Equisetum diffusum,^ D. Don, Prodr, El. Nepal. 19.
Filices.
Aspidium invisunij Swartz Synops. Filic. 48. Port Moresby j Rev.
Dr. Turner.
Aspidium Leuzeamm- ; Kunze in der Bot. Zeit. xiv. 474. Fly-
River ; D’Albertis.
Both these ferns have been named by Mr. Baker at Kew, who had
access to authentic material.
Lichenastua.
Plagiochila Novm Gtdnece^ Lacoste in Miq. Annal. i. 292.
Plagiochila Zvppelii, Lacoste, 1. c. 293.
Clvdoscyphus Zollinger% Gottsche in Natuurk. Tijdschr. v. Nederl.
Indie, 1853, 576.
Thysanantlnis cmnosus, Lindenb. in Lehm. Pugill. viii. 25.
Fliragmicoma polymorpha, Lacoste in Nederland. Kruidk. Arch. iii.
420.
Frullania Billardieriana^ Nees et Mont, in Annal. des Scienc. IN at.
1843, 256.
Frullania Zippeliiy Lacoste in Miq. Anna!, i. 313.
Descriptioe Notes 07h Papuan Plants.
loa
ADDITION.
LEGUMINOS^.
Acacia holosericea.
All. Cunn. in G. Don’s Gen. Syst. of Dichlam. PI. ii. 407.
Geelvink-Bajj Beccari ; River, D’ Albertis ; Baxter’s Rivers
Reedy.
This Papuan acacia is here drawn doubtfully to Cunning-ham’s tropical
Australian plant, as the spikes have been seen only in a very young-
state and no fruits have as yet been gathered in New Guinea. Moreover
the Papuan plant is almost glabrous, its phyllodia are towards the
summit more narrowed, and the lower confluence of their nerves is not
usually at or near but somewhat remote from the edge ] it shows
however the same short peduncles and manifest petioles as those of A.
holosericea, by which means it is removed from A. latifolia. The fact,
that Dr. Beccari gathered A. Simsii also at Humboldt’s Bay, proves
that more than one Australian acacia extends to the north coast of New
Guinea. But another question arises, whether the Papuan plant is
combinable with A. Mangium (W. Sp. PI. iv. 1053) as Bentham
(Transact. Linn. Soc. xxx. 495) and also Beccari suppose. Rumph
(Herbar. Amboin. iii. 123) describes the phyllodia 5 inches long and
1^ inches (by miswriting 1^ foot) broad, which accords with the Papuan
plant, although he gives the size of the seeds smaller than flax-seeds ;
his seemingly reduced figure leaves the question in doubts, which only
can be solved by researching for the t}q)ical plant at tlie little islands
close to Amboina. The short distance from thence to New Guinea
speaks for the identity.
A third phyllodineus acacia occurs on the Fly-River and Baxter’s
River, with foliage not unlike that of A. polystachya, A. tumida, A.
crassocarpa and A. auriculiforrais, but neither flowers nor fruits have
been obtained.
Mr. Allan Hughan gathered k. spirorbis (Labill. Sert. Austro-Caled.
t. 09) or an allied species in the Loyalty-Islands, but in foliage only.
101
Desciiptlvo Notes on Piqnian Phints.
MYRTACE/E.
Tkistania macrospehma.
Leaves scattered or few of the upper opposite^ oval-lanceolai’j soon
glabrous ; cymes paniculate 5 peduncles, pedicels and petioles as well as
the }■ oung branchlets finely tomentose 5 lobes of the calyx deltoid,
hardly half as long as the tube, the latter almost glabrous; base of the
petals and the short connate portions of the stamens fnely downy ;
filaments in each bundle 11-13 ; stigma hardly broader than the style ;
valves of the capsule half exserted ; fertile seeds winged at oneendxis
well as the sterile ones large and flat.
Geelvink-Bay ; Dr, Beccari.
Well developed leaves 2-3 inches long, unless the upper ones smaller,
attenuated into a slender petiole of ^ an inch or less length ; pellucid
punctures hardly visible. Panicles trichotomous, terminal. Pedicels
mostly shorter than the calyx; tube of the latter while petal-bearing
about 1-| line long. Petals scarcely above 1 line broad, their color
probably white or pale. Stamens longer than the petals ; their united
portion shorter than the filaments ; anthers roundish-oval, versatile,
opening by anterior longitudinal slits. Style capillary, about 2 lines
long. Fruit three-valved, 3-4 lines high. Seeds forming one circular
row, 11 or less in each cell, pendent from the placentas which terminate
the finally seceding central column, filling the cavity to the bottom, both
fertile and sterile of about equal size, brown, oval-semiorbicular, 1 ^- 2 J
lines long.
In external appearance the Papuan species resembles much T, suaveo-
lens (Sm. in Rees’s C^xl. 1817); but the base of the })etnls and stamens
is not unbearded, the number of filaments in each bundle is less, the
stigma is not peltate-dilated, the fruit-valves are not remaining in height
equal with the calyx tube, while the seeds are much less numerous, much
larger and neither spreading nor very slender, but the fertile ones pro-
vided with a membranous appendage. Whether considerable distinctions
exist in bark and wood, remains to be ascertained. In some respects the
approach of this new plant is nearer to T. exiliflora (F, v. M. Fragm. v.
11 ), notwithstanding the narrower leaves, the minute flowers, paucity
of stamens and turgid and shorter seeds of the hitter. Among Indian
congeners the Papuan one ditfers from T. obovata (Bennett in llorsf.
PL Javan. Rarior, 127, t. xxvii.) in acute leaves, longer ]»etioles, lurger
105
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Planis.
flowers, more numeroTis stamens, broader capsule and much broader
seeds, which latter however are arranged like those of T. macrosperma.
T. rufescens (Hance in Trimen’s Journal of Bot. 187b, p. 259) from
Cambqja is easily distinguished by its vestiture and fewer stamens. The
New Caledonian species, as far as known to me, namely T. Guillamii
(Veil!. Coll. 2221), T. Callobuxus (Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 709),
T. glauca (Brogn. et Gris ; Panch. n. 70, Veill. n. 907), T. capitulata
(Panch. in Annal. des Scienc. Nat. ser. cinq. ii. 130) and T. Veillardii
(Brogn. et Gris 5 Veill. 2179) are all except the one last mentioned very
distinct from the Papuan species; T. Veillardii differs however in
blunt leaves somewhat decurrent into the petiole, in smaller flowers,
obtuse lobes of the calyx, stamens not exceeding the petals and perhaps
its fruit, which I have not seen. T. Burmanica (Griff. Plant. Cantor,
49) is not available to me for comparison.
It may be here incidentally remarked, that the Melaleuca pungens of
Brogn. et Gris, 1. c. 139, has to change its specific name, which is pre-
occupied by a West- Australian plant (Schauer in Lchm. PI. Preiss. i-
138) ; the New Caledonian species might be named 31, Brogniartii in
memory of the great savant, who recently passed away from his luminous
career, and who so largely elucidated the New Caledonian vegetation.
That the length of the stamens is not of absolute generic value in
Myrtaceas became demonstrated by the extreme shortness of the fila-
ments of some species of Tristania and also of Eucalyptus and other
cognate genera ; hence it is advisable to transfer all the Cloezias to
Metrosideros. In the latter genus occur species with a five-celled
ovary.
Myrtella.
Lohes of the calyx 5, almost vahate before expansion, not scarious,
as long or somewhat shorter than the petals. Stamens uniseriate,free,
about 30, scarcely longer than the lobes of the calyx. Cells of the
anthers slit longitudinally. Style short. Stigma very minute. Ovary
three-celled', ovules few or several in each cell, aflixed to the axillary
placentas. Fruit unknown. Papuan shrubs with small oppo>site leaves,
axillary solitary small flowers and long - persistent bracteoles. Tlie
absence of ripe fruits renilers it impossible to designate even the tribe of
Myrtacem. into which this genus should be placed, whether Bmckeacete
or Myrtca^; meanwhile the characteristics of the genus rest mainly on
the nearly valvular proflorescence of the calyx.
10 ()
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
Mvrtelj.a Beccauii.
Young- branclilets slightly downy ; leaves ohlong-elliptical, glabrous
except their very obtuse base, on exceedingly short stalks, slightly
recurved at the margin ; flower-stalklets several times shorter than the
leaves; bracteoles seated at the base of the calyx, linear; tube of the
calyx shorter than the bracteoles and hardly as long as the lobes ; petals
scarcely longer than the calyx-lobes ; ovary with few ovules in each cell.
Humboldt’s Bay; Dr. Beccaid.
Shrub with the habit of a Bteckea or a Thryptomene. Branchlets
numerous and spreading. Leaves chartaceous, hardly 3 lines long,
shining above, paler beneath, copiously dotted, spreading. Pedicels
about 1 line long. Bracteoles measuring* 1^-2 lines in length. Lobes
of the calyx semilanceolar, 1 line long or little longer, ciliolate ; tube
comparatively broad, quite smooth, turgid. Petals subtle-downy, oval.
Filaments capillary; anthers roxindisb, with a conspicuous connective.
Style about 1 line long. Stigma hardly dilated. Young fruit semiovate.
IVIyKTELLA IIIKSU'l’ULA.
Leaves oval-lanceolar, at the lower page as well as the branchlets and
calyces densely hairy, their surhice beset with scattered hair ; petals
nearly twice as long as the calyx-lobes, ovules several or many in each
cell.
On Mount Arfak, at a height of 5-6,000 feet ; Dr. Beccari.
A shi’uh with the habit of a small Myrtus. Indument of branchlets
and underside of the leaves almost brownisL-tomentose. Leaves
inch long, thinly coriaceous. Flowers described from a sketch of Dr.
Beccari, who found the anthers cordate and the ovules adscendent and
anatropal.
Dr. Beccari’s collection contains another remarkable myrtaceous plant,
with the liabit of a Psidium, probably referable to the genus Eugenia,
hut of which the fruit remains unknown. The only flower available for
examination showed 8 petals, being double the number of the calyx-
lobes. Unless this augmentation arose from monstrous growth, we
obtain a species abnormal not only in the g’enus Eugenia (and to which
the name E. pleiopetala might be given), hut also in the whole order of
Myrtacere, except Gustavia. The leaves are oval and 2-3 inches long ; the
flowers are solitary, axillary and placed on very short peduncles ; the
Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants,
107
four lobes of the calyx are almost renate and much overlapping ; the
petals are oval or oblong and nearly 1 inch long ; the stamens number
about 30, and the rather narrow ovary reminds of that of Myrtus
(Rhodomyrtus) macrocarpa,
BiECKEA FRUTESCENS.
Linne Sp. PI. 358.
Geelvink-Bay ; Beccari.
CRASSULACE^.
Bryophyllum calyctnum.
Salisb. Paradis. Londin. t. 3.
A cultivated plant, obtained in New Guinea during Capt. Moresby’s
discovery-voyage was sent to me by Richard Merricks, Esq., of the
Naval Depot of Auckland,
CUCURBITACE/E.
Alsomitha Hooke ri.
F. V. M. Fragm. vi, 188.
Audai ; Dr. Beccari.
'rhe staminate plant, which alone I have seen, accords with Queens-
land specimens. The tendrils are often bifid. The uniformly three-
lobed calyx, exceptional in the order of Cucurbitacese, distinguishes
mainly, if not solely, Alsomitra from Zanonia, inasmuch as simple and
compound leaves occur also in Momordica, Anguria, Trianosperma and
Cyclanthera.
EPACRIDEZE.
Styphelia troctiocarpoides.
Mount Arfak, at a height of about G,000 feet ; Dr. Beccari.
This is the first epacrideous plant, rendered known from New Guinea,
though in all likelihood others will yet be detected there in the higher
mountain-regions. The finder obtained neither flowers nor fruit, but the
foliage leaves no doubt about the ordinal position of the plant, although
its generic place remains thus uncertain. The leaves are scattered,
lanceolar, gradually long-acuminated, flat, shining on both sides but paler
108
])esoriptwe Notes on ]\ipnan J^Jants.
beneath; 5-7-nerved; conspicuously stalked and as well as the branchlets
glabrous, not pungent-pointed; their length varies from inches,
the width is about J an inch. They are not dissimilar to those of the
smaller form of Trochocarpa laurina. Among extra-australian species
the plant bears comparison to Styphelia dammarifolia (Leucopogon
dammarifolius, Brogn. et Gris Fragm. d’une Flore de la Nouv. Cale-
donie 1864, p. 83) but the leaves are thinly petioled, much shorter, much
more acute and more prominently nerved. The Papuan plant differs
also from Styphelia Pancheri (Brogn. et Gris 1. c.) in leaves not blunt
nor only very finely streaked.
INDEX
Papre
Page
Abelmoschus angulosus
...
56
Alpiuia ...
13
Abroma augusta ...
36
inacrantha
101
fastuosa
21
Papuana ...
101
Abrus precatorius
8,62
pubiflora ...
101
Abutilon auiitum
...
55
Alsomitra Hookcri
107
Indicum
...
55
Alstonia
91
Acacia ...
...
13
scholaris ...
70
Arabica
24
spectabilis
92
holosericea
103
Alternanthera sessilis
58
Mangium
103
Alyxia ruscifolia
28
pseudo-arabica ...
.. .
24
Ainarantacese
41, 58, 87
Eichei
24
Amaryllideae
73
Seyal
24
Ammannia baccif era
67
Simsii
24, 65
latifolia
67
spirorbis ...
24
Senegalenis
67
Acalypha
59,83
Amorphophallus ...
13
Acanthaceae
12,71
campauulatus
lOl
Acanthus ilicif olius
12
Anacardiaceas
54
Achras
13
Anamirta ...
13
Achyranthes
33
Anamirta paniculata
96
aspera
...
58,69
Ancistrocladus ...
13
Acrostichum aiireum
33, 76
Andropogan anuulatus . . .
46
dryuaroides
76
contortus ...
46
scandens ...
50
Haleppensis
47
sorbifolium
50
rottboellioides
46
Adenostemma viscosum . . .
27, 69
tropiciis
47
Adiantum ASthiopicum ...
15
Anisomeles salvifolia
44
caudatum ...
32
Anisoptera
13
hispidulum
32
polyandra
97
lunulatum
49
Anonacea3...
95
-^giceras ...
13
Anthistiria ciliata
47
floridum
100
Antrophyum pumilum ...
81
f ragans
70
reticulatum
81
Afzelia Amboinensis
...
8
strictum ...
81
bijuga
24
Apluda mutica
46
Aglaia elasagnoidea
...
6
ApocynesD
28, 70,91
Aglaiopsis glaucesccns ...
6
Aporum incrassatuni
.30
Albizzia ...
. . .
83
Serra
29
Papuana ...
. . .
24
Apostasia
13
rotuudata ...
8
Wallichii ...
30
saponaria
8
Appendicula
13
sessilis
. . .
24
penicillata
30
Alchornea Javensis
7,23
Araliacea3
88
Allophylus
13
Araucaria...
,. 33,34
Cobbe
. . .
21
Areca
13
Sundanus
21
i macrocalvx
101
] 1 Tnd('.r.
rage
Aristicla
33
Bauhinia scandcns
62
ramosa
47
Teysmaimiaiia
24
Aroidea3 ...
101
WilliawsH ...
61
Artabotrys
13
Begonia
33
inoclora
95
dipetala
67
Arthrophyllum piunatmii
89
fallax
67
Anmi
33
maculata ...
68
Asdepiadese
12
Malabarica
67
Asperifoliaj
11,44,71
spilotophylla
67
Aspidiiim acutum
... 48,79
Bcgoniaceee
67
exaltatum ...
... 48, 59
Beilschmiedia
33
immersum ..
48
caloneura ...
96
invisTim
102
Bidens
33
Jveuzeamuii
102
pilosns
43
Menyanthidis
15
Bignoniacese
100
molle
1.5
Bixaceje
54
neriifornie
... 49
Blcchniim orientale
81
padiypbyllum
15
serrulatum
81
Pica
48
striatum ...
81
pteroides ...
79
Blumea hieracifolia
90
ramosum ...
... 48,79
Boehmeria
13
trmicatum
48
Boerhaavia diffusa
58
nriitiim
33
Bolbopiiyllum grandilloruni
30
Asplenium Amboiiiense ...
81
Brassaia niacrostacbya ...
89
cicutarium
82
Bryophyllum calycinum
107
cyatbaafolinm
50
Buchanania
33
clecussatuni
50
macrophyila
54
esculentum
82
Burseracese
98
t'alcatmn
16
Cadetia
13
laserpitifoliiim
15
similis
30
latifolium ...
50
iimbcllata
30
lunulatuin...
82
Cajsalpinia Bonducella ...
... 24,43
niyriopbyllum
82
pulcherrima
24
NiduR
... 50,59
Calamus
... 13,83
Pliyllitidis
81
barbatus ...
102
vScamlc'US ...
... 15,50
heteracanthu.s
102
Schkuhrii
50
Calanthe veratrifolia
73
Rcolopendroides . . .
81
Callicarpa
33
Scolopendropsis . . .
49
eriocloiia ...
91
silvaticum
50
Calophyllum
13
simplicifrons
81
inophyllum
36
speciosum ...
82
Canarium ...
13
teiierimi
50
angustifolium
98
vulcanicuiii
50
asperum ...
98
Astronia
33
rigidum
98
macrophyila
99
Canavalia obtusifolia
25, 42, 59
Avicermia
33
Canthium Molluccaiium
26
officinalis ...
91
Capnodium Fuligo
82
Bcca Commersoni ...
14
Caprifoliacea3
99
Bscckca f rutescens
107
Cax}paridea3
... 5,52
Balanophora
34
Capparis quiniflora
5
Banksia dentata ...
28
subcordata
... 5
Barklya syringifoHa
62
Zippeliaua
96
Barringtonia speciosa ...
9
Carapa Moluccensis
6
Bassia Cooco
100
Cardamiuc sarmentosa ...
59
Bauliinia ferruginea
... 8,62
Cardiopteris
13
pipcrifolia...
62
lobata
53
ruia
62
OardioRpermum halicacabum
53
Index.
Ill
Carex cryptostachya
raf?o
.31
Oarissa
28
Caryophyllese
86
Caryota ..
13
fiirfuracea
102
Cascaria
13
clutijefolia
99
salacioides
99
Cassia Javanica
23
mimosoidcs
8
Sophera
8
Gassy tha filiformis
59
Casuarina equisetifolia ...
12
Casnarineas
12
Celastrineaj
97
Celosia
33
Celtis
13
latifolia
41
paniculata
40
Zippelii
41
Cenchrus ...
33
echiiiatus ...
74
Ocntotheca
13
lappacea ...
31, 47
Ceratophyllurn demersiim
60
Cerbera Odollam
28
Ceriops
13
Candolleana
99
Chsetosus
13
volubilis
28
Chavica
13
Cheilanthes dicksonioides
77
tenuifolia
48
Cheirostylis
13
graiidiflora
30
Chiloscyphus Zollingeri...
102
Chionanthas
33
ramiflorus . . .
100
ChlaBandra
13
ovata
96
Chrysophyllum
13
Javanicum
100
Cinnamomum
13
xantboneurum
96
Cissodeiidroa Australianum
88
Clematis
33
Cleome viscosa
52
Clerodendrou
33
floribuudum
90
inerme
11
Papiiannm
91
Tracyamim
91
Clitoria teruatea
24
Clcezia
105
Coccoloba platyclada
14
Cocblospermum Gillivrayi
54
Gossypium
54
Gregory!
54
Cocos
Page
13
uucifera
102
Codiaenm chrysostictuin
60
Ccelorachis muricata
46
Coslospermiini scandens
10
Coffca Kovo-GiiiTieeusis
10
Coix Lacryma Jobi
31
Coleus ...
83
Colubriua Asiatica
7
Combretaceffi
66
Combret um cocciu cum ...
66
comosum
66
Goldieanum
66
grandifiorum
66
latifolium
66
micropetalum
66
Coramelyna
33
ensif'olia
45
Commelyiieffi
45
Commersonia echinata . . .
21
Compositse 10, 27
43, 69, 90
Coniferje
93
Counarus
83
Convolvulacea3
44, 70, 91
Convolvulus parviflorus
70
Corchorus
85
Cordia subcordata
... 44, 59
Cordyline terniinalis
30
Costus
83
Cotylanthcra tenuis
69
Crassulacese
107
Crinum Asiaticuni
101
Crotalaria juncea
61
linifolia
42
verrucosa
61
Cryptocoryne
13
ciliata
101
Cucurbitaceaa
68
Cupania
13
Zippeliaua
21
Cyathula
13
gcniculata ...
41
Cycadeje
71
Cycas
... 13, 33
Cyoas angulata ...
72
circinalis
72
inermis
72
media
72
Papuana ...
71
pectinata ...
72
Cylicodapbne niacrophylla
96
Cynometra
83
Cyperacese
31, 45, 73
Cyperus
83
diffiisus
31
distans
73
Lagorensis
31
longifolius
31
K
1 1 2 Index,
Cyperus tnonoeephalus
I’age
45
Dicksonia Sraithii
PaffC
77
pubisquama
31
Dicliptera spicata
71
Cypholopluis
13
Dilleuiacefe
20
iatifolius ...
41
Dioscorea
13
melanocarpus
....
41
vulgaris
101
prostratus ...
...
41
Dioscoridese
lOl
vestitus
41
Dipterocarpeje
97
Cyrtandra
33
Dischidia nummularia
12
Dfemonorops
13
ovata
12
Dalbergia densa ...
...
...
8
peltata
Timorensis
12
monosperma
8
12
Davallia Blumeana
77
Discostigma rostratum
86
elata
78
Dodonoea
13
elegans
...
49
Burmanniana
21
Fijensis
..
78
viscosa
21
fiaccida
33
Dolichos Lablab ...
88
Mauritiana
78
Dracsena angustifolia
73
multifida ...
33
Draco
30
solida
78
Drymaria cordata
86
triquetra ...
78
dta7idra
86
Deeringia celosioides
41
gerontogea
87
Dendrobium anceps
...
29
Drymispermum macrocarpum
98
antennatum
14
urens
98
atropurpureum
15
Dysoxylon
13, 83
bifalce
14
amooroides
6
bilobum
14
caulostachyum
6
funiforme ...
30
Kunthiauum
6
heteroideum
30
lasiocarpum
6
hispidum ...
30
molle
6
iucrassatum
30
Ebenacese
93
insigne
30
Elseocarpus amceuus
7
Johannis ...
15
Arnhemicus
6
Macfarlanei
...
29
edulis
58
macranthum
14
laurifolms ...
7
tnacrophyilum
...
30
longifolius
7
micranthum
29
obovatus ...
6
Mirbelianum
14
parviflorus
6
Serra
29
rotundifolius
7
spectabile ...
...
15
Eleusine cruciata
47
Tokai
14
Emilia purpurea ...
27
trichostomum
...
30
Enlialus acoroides
45
tridentiferum
...
14
Epilobium...
34
umbellatum
30
Eqiiisetacea?
102
undulatum
72
Equisctum debile...
102
yeratrifolium
14
diffusum ...
102
Dendropbtoe verticillata
...
99
Erigeron linifolius
44
Denis scandens ...
24
Eriochloa punctata
74
Timoreusis
8
Eriocnide
13
uiiginosa ...
8
Eucalyptus
34
Desmodium dependens
7, 88
alba
9
Gangeticum
88
Decaisneana
9
pendulum ...
. .
7
Moluccana
9
umbellatum
...
42
multiflora ...
9
Dicksonia cuneata
77
Papnana ...
8
dayallioides
77
platyphylla
9
delicata
77
1 Eugenia
83
Papuan a ...
. .
76
.Benthami ...
9
Samoensis ...
77
i Blumei
9
Index.
118
I’lige
t’age
Eugenia laucif olia
...
9
Garcinia rostrata. . .
86
litoralis
...
10
subtilinervis
85
pleiopetala
...
106
Gardenia
13
Euodia hortensis
...
54
Geniostoma
13
longifolia ...
. . .
33
Lasiostemon
99
suaveolens
...
33
Gentianeaa
69
Euphorbia Atoto
...
40
Geraniacese
97
piiulifera
...
23
Gironniera
13
Euphorbiacese ... 7,
to
p
60, 87
rhamnifolia
41
Eurya
33
Gleichenia Hermanni
76
trichocarpa
97
Glycosmis pentaphylla ...
54
Eur ycles silrestris
73
Gmelina
33
Euxolus inteiTuptus
87
lepidota
91
Exocarpus latifolia
10
Gnetum
13
Fagrgea
...
13
Gnemum
94
coarctafca ...
...
100
latitblium
94
cuspidata
100
Gomphrena
13, 83
rostrata
100
Goniothalamus
13
volubilis
99
caloneurus
95
Faradaya
...
33
longirostris
95
Fapuana
...
91
Gonocaryon
33
Ficus
...
13, 59
macrocarpum
53
angulidens
...
41
Gordonia ...
33
cuspidata
Mr
41
Gramineje
3l',
46, 74
obscura
...
41
Grammitis
13
opposita
...
60
pinnata
32
parietalis
41
Grewia pleiostigma
58
pilosa
41
Guettarda speciosa
43,59
Filices
15, 32,
48, 76
Guilandiua Bonduc
8
Fimbristylis glomerata ..
59
Bonducella
24
Flacourtia
.. .
33
Gunncra
34
cataphracta
...
54
Guttiferee
36,85
Flagellaria
...
33
Gymnema recurvifoliuni
12
Indica
...
73
Gynopachys Zippeliana ...
25
Flemingea lineata
63
Haloragese...
60
Fleurya
...
13
Hamamelidese
99
interrupta
.. .
40
Harpullia
13, 83
ruderalis
...
41,59
cupanoides
21
Fliudersia Amboinensis ..
.. .
84
rupcstris
21
Papuava ...
...
84
Hedychium
33
Forrestia
...
13
angustifolium
28
hispida
. • .
101
lanatum
101
Freycinetia
...
13
Hedyotis borreroides
26
Gaudichaudi
...
94
carnosa
26
marginata...
94
cephalophora
26
scandens ...
94
hispida
26
Frullania Billardieriana . .
. . .
102
inamoena ...
26
Zippelii
102
iodoneura
26
Fungi
...
82
Laperousii
26
Galactia tenuiflora
...
42
inacrophylla
26
Ganophyllum
13
membranacea
26
falcatum
. . .
98
nodulosa
26
Garcinia
.. .
33
prostrata ...
26
anomala
85
uncinella
26
Cowa
. . .
85
Ileliconopsis
33
Maingayi
...
85
Amboinensis
101
multiflora
...
85
Ilelicteres angu.stifolia ...
20
rigida
86
scmiglabra
...
20
114
Index.
I’iijic
Hellenia pubifloni
lUl
Helminthostachys Zeilaiiic.-i
75
Heptapleurum
13
Jimbriatum
89
Hcritiera litoralis
6
Hernandia
33
Sonora
96
Hetaria
13
elongata ...
30
obscui’a
30
Hibiscus ...
33 1
Abehnosclius
56 1
angulosus ...
56
D^Albei'tisii
56
ficulneus
56 1
fragraus
... 57
Manihot
56
niicans
57
Notho-Manihot . . .
56
pentapbyllus
56
platycalyx
57
Ixosa^Sinensis
57
tiliaceus
.. .56, 59
tulipiflorus
57
venustus ...
57
vitifolius ...
56
Hippocratea
13
pauciflora
97
Zippeliana
97
Holosteum diaiidrum
87
Hoya apiculata
100
Ariadna
100
globulifera
12 ,
pruinosa ...
12
purpurea ...
12 1
llydnophytuni fonuicarum
10 1
lauceolatum
26
montauum
26
llydrocharideaj
... 45, 72
Hydrocharis Asiatica
72
Morsus-Ranae
72
Hypaelyptum
83
Ilyi>oestis floribuuda
71
Impatiens
33
latifolia
97
Zippelii
97
Indigofera enneaphylla ...
61
linifolia
42
trifoliata ...
42
viscosa
61
Inocarpus edulis
25
Intsia Amboinensis
24
Iporacea ... ...
.. 33,83
angustifolia
70
cymosa
91
dissecta
100
eriocarpa
70
hederacea
70
Ipomcea pes-capra*
Page
91
quinata
44
Irina Diplocardia
2 1
Ischasnium pectinatuni
46
rottboellioides
46
Isolepis barbata
46
Ixora
83
Pavetta
69
Ja?gera
13
speciosa
21
Jarabosa auriculata
9
JasminefB...
71
Jasminum
33
semulum ...
71
didymum
11
rupestre
11
Jodes ...
33
ovalis
53
Josepliinia grandiflora ...
11
Jossinia litoralis ...
10
Jussisea repens
60
suffruticosa
60
Justicia
33
Kandelia
13
Rheedei
99
Kentia
13
procera
101
Ivleinhovia
13
bospita
21
Knoxia corymbosa
43
Kopsia
13
flavida ...
28
Korthalsia ...
13
Zippelii
102
Kyllingia monocephala
31
Labiatas 44,
71, 90
Lasianthera
13
Australiana
53
litoralis
53
Lauracea3
96
Leea ...
13
sambucina
36
Sundaica ...
37
Zippeliana
37
Leguminosaj ... 7, 23, 41,
61, 88
Lepistemon
33
flavescens
100
Leptaspis Banksii
47
Leptospermum Amboiuense
25
Lepturus repens
59
Leucas flaccida ...
71
Lichenastra
102
Licuala ..
13
pendentiflora
102
Rumphii
102
Liliacea}
30, 73
Limnanthemum Indicuni
69
Lindsaya acutifolia
78
Index. 1 1
rage
rage
Liiidsaya Amboiiiensis
78
Maranta
33
curdata
78
Medinilla
13
lanceolata ...
78
bracteata ...
99
lanuginosa
59
Papuana
99
lobata
78
Melaleuca Leucadendron
... 9,88
pectinata ...
78
Brogniartii
105
Liquidanibar
13
Melanococca '
13
Altingia ...
99
tomeutosa...
97
Litssea
13
Melastoma
33
latifolia
96
Malabatbricurn
99
Loganiaceie
99
Melastomacea3
99
Lomaria eupblebia
78
Mclbania iiicana
... 55
J^omariopsis spectabilis
.50
Meliacese
6, 53, 84
Lonicera
13
Melocbia
13
Chinensis ...
99
corcborifolia
65
Lorantbacea)
99
ludica
21
Lorauthus
33
odorata
55
verticillatus
99
pyramidata
36
Lucuma Cocco
100
tilisefolia
55
Luffa JEgyptiaca
68
Vitiensis
... 55
Arabum ...
68
Melotbria
33
Lumnitzera
13
Kumpbiana
99
cocciuea ...
59
Memecylon
13
racemosa ...
66
pauciflorum
99
Lycopodiacese
74
Menispermece
96
Lycopodium cernuum
74
Metroxylon
13
D’Urvillei...
75
blare
102
fiabellatum
75
liumphii
102
Plilegmaria
74
Micromelum pubescens ...
84
squarrosum
74
Micropodium longifolium
50
Lygodium circinuatuin
33
Monenteles spicatus
43
dicbotomum
75
Morinda citrifolia
... 10,59
Japonicum
75
gemella
... 10
Lytbracese
43,67
glomerata ...
10
Maba
13
Mosebosma polystaebya...
71
elliptica
93
Mucuna acuminata
64
Macaranga aleuritoides
21
AlbeTtisii ...
64
hispida
22
anguina
65
lougistipulata
22
JBennettli ...
63
stipulosa ...
22
imbricata
64
Mo3sa
33
macrobotrya
63
acuminata ...
92
macrocarpa
65
haplobotrys
92
macrophylla
65
la3vigata ...
93
monosperma
64
mollissima
93
Novo-Guineensis ...
... 24, 64
Novo-Guineensis
92
pruriens
66
protracta ...
92
Muehlenbeckia gracillima
60
verrucosa ...
92
platyclada...
60
Mallotus Pbilippineusis
87
Mukia scabrella
68
ricinoides ...
87
Musa
13
tilia?folius ...
7,23
Mussa?nda frondosa
25
Malpighiaceas
36
Myristica
... 13,83
Malvacea3 ...
36, 55
Aruana
96
Mangif era
13
fatua
96
mucronata. . .
64
lepidota
96
Taipan
54
raorindifolia
96
Maniltoa grandiilora
24
nesopbila ...
96
Mappa tanaria
7
Papuana
96
Index.
Myriatica pimiteformis ...
Page
96
1
Crania
Page
13
subalulata ...
96
regalis
101
subcordata
96
1 Orchideaj
U, 29
, 72
subtilis
96
Orophea
13
tubiflora
96
aurantiaca...
95
Zippeliana...
96
ovata
95
Myristicea?
96
Orthosiphon stamincus ...
45
Myrmecodia echinata
... 10,90
Osbeckia
13
Myrsine
33
Australiaua
99
donsiflora
93
Osmoxylon
13
Myrsinese
70
Amboinense
89
Myrtacese
8, 25, 88
Palmacea3 ...
101
Myrtella Beccarii
106
Panax
13
hirsutula
106
Zippeliaiium
89
Myrtus Coriandri
10
Pandaneaj
...
94
laxiflora
10
Pandanus
... 33
, 59
Nageia Blumei ...
93
Panicum conipositum
... 31
bracteata ...
93
foliosum
74
Japonica ...
93
multinode
31
liumpliii ...
93
repens
31
thevetisefolia
93
sauguinale
47
Nelitris Coriandri
10
yirgatum
47
laxiflora
10
Paspalum longifoliiim ...
74
Nepenthaceae
... 20,52
Passiflora aurantia
68
Nepenthes
13
Passifloreaa
68
ampullaria
52
Pavetta Boreensis
26
Kennedy!
20
Kothiana
10
pbyllamphora
20
Zippeliana
10
Nephelium
13
Payenia
33
Diplocardia
21
Ba^vuin
100
ferruginenm
21
Pedalineas ...
11
Nephrodium pteroides ...
... 79
Peliionia elatosteruoides
41
Neuburgia
13
Pemphis acidula ...
... *13
, 59
musculiformis
28
Pentaxjhragma macropbylla
...
28
Nipa
13
Peristrophe
33
f ruticans ...
100
tinctoria
33
Nyctagineaa
58
Perotis rara
47
Nymphosa
13
Pha3anthus
33
gigautea
95
nutans
95
Nymphaeaceae
95
Phaleria
33
Ochrosia
59
Plianera rufa
62
Ocimum
33
Phaseolus Max
88
Basilicum
90
Phragniicoma polymorplia
102
sanctum
90
Phragmites communis ...
74
Odina
13
Phrymium
33
speciosa
97
giganteum
101
Olacinece
53
maximum
101
Oleaceas
11
Phylacium bracteosum ...
24
Oleandra
13
Phyllauthus buxifolius ...
23
musajfolia
49
Niruri
87
neriiformis
48
Urinaria
87
Oligostemon
62
Piper
... 33
83
Onagreas
60
Barclayanum
.»•
98
Ophioglossece
76 ,
caninum
98
Ophiorrhiza Mungos
25 1
Forsteri
98
Opilia
13 :
fragile
98
amentacca ...
53
methysticum
98
pentitidis
53 1
Pipcracea?
...
98
Index.
117
Pipturus velutinus
I’isonia
Page
59, 60
Polypodium liuguiformo...
Page
48, 80
33, 59
Linnsei
48, 79
Brunoniana
98
mussefolium
80
cauliflora
98
nigrescens
80
IMthecolobium Papuanum
24
nutans
80
sessile
24
phymatodes
48*
59, 80
Pittosporese
96
proliferum
80
Pittosporum
13, 83
punctatum
15
chelidosperraum ...
96
quercifolium
48
Novo-Guinense ...
96
rigidulum
48
Rumpliii ...
96
sinuosum
48
sinuatura
96
stigmosum
15,48
Plagiochila Novo-Gaineas
102
varians
80
Zippelii
102
Polyscias
33
P latycerium grande
76
Papuana
89
Plectranthus
45
Pongamia volubilis
8
parviflorus
90
Popowia
13
Plectronia Moluccana ...
26
NoYO-Guineensis ...
95
Pluchea Indica
10
Portulaca
59
Phimbagineas
58
Pothos
13, 83
Plumbago Zeilanica
58
Zippelii
101
Plumiera Papuana
28
Pouzolzia quinqucncrvis
40
Podocarpus
13
Premna integrifolia
12
agathifoUa
93
Pritzelia
13
bracteata
93
Procris
13
Rumphii
93
Proteacca3
28
thevetiajfolia
93
Pseudochrosia
13
Podochilus
13
glomerata
28
densiflorus
30
Psilotum triquetrum
59
scalpelliformis
30
Psoralea Archeri
41
Pollia
33
Psychotria
83
thyrsiflora
101
Pteris excelsa
78
Polyalthia...
13
longifolia
16
cliloroxantha
95
longipes
78
glauca
95
semipinnata
78
hirta
95
tripartita
16, .59
macropoda
95
Zippelii
78
Polygala
13
Pterocaulon Billardieri ...
43
hyalina
97
Pterostelma albiflorum ...
12
Polygalacese
97
Ptychosperma
13
Polygoneje
59
augustifolium
101
Polygonum
13
appendiculatum ...
101
polyanthum
59
commune
101
pubescens
59
oliviforme ...
101
Zippelii
59
Pycnarrhena
13
Polyphragmon pseudo-capitatum
26
Novo-Guineensis ...
96
rigidum
26
Pycnospora hedysaroides
42
Polypodiuni acrostichoidcs
48, 79
Quercus
33, 83
albo-squamatum ...
80
Randia densiflora
25
appendiculatum ...
81
Fitzalaui
69
barbatum
80
Macarihuri
68
blechnoides
80
stipularis
69
contiguum
80
stipulosa ...
69
decorum ...
80
Zippeliana ...
25
ferriigineum
15, 48
Rliamnacese
7
heracleum ...
79
Rbaphidophora
13
irioides
48
amplissima
101
irregulare
79 1
Zippeliaiia
...
101
118 hideoi'.
Uluzophora
1
age
13
Semecarpus
rivge
... 13,33
conjugata
99
Cassuvium
54
raucronata
59
Sesbania aculeata
62
Khizophorca3
99
Sida
59
Rhodamuia glauca
...
10
spinosa
55
Rhododendron
...
34
Sideroxylon
83
Rhynchospora aurea
74
Simarube®
97
Riedle}’a tiliasfolia
55
Sloanea Jamaiccnsis
85
Rosace®
98
parcuHscarum
84
Rottboellia
...
33
Smytliea
33
Rubiace® 10, 25,
43,
68,
90
Noyo-Guineensis ...
98
Rubus
33
Solanacc®
... 44,91
Moluccanus
98
Solanum
33
Ruellia
33
incanum ...
44
repanda
100
lasiocarpum
44
Rutacc®
54
pulvinare
44
Ryssopterys
33
repandiim
91
Timorcnsis
36
Schefferi
44
Saccharum
33
verbascifolmm
44
macilentura
47
Sonneratia
33
spontaneum
46
Sophora tomentosa
42
Saccolabiiim fasciculatiim
14
Soularnea
33
quinq^ucMum
14
amara
97
Sagus
...
33
Spanoghea f erruginea . . .
21
Salacia
13
Spermacoce l®vigata
27
prinoides ...
97
Papaana ...
27
sororia
97
Sponia
13
Samydace®
99
Stemonurus
53
Santalace®
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Stephania
13
Sapindace®
21
53
Zippeliana
96
Sapindus
13
Sterculiacc® 6,
20, 36, 55
cnspidatus
21
Streblus
13
Sapotacc®
...
100
asper
41
Saprosma arborca
10
Stypbelia trocliocarpoides
107
8arcopodium
13
damari-folia
108
Sauranja
13
Pancheri ...
108
altissima
97
Suriana maritima
59
brcvirostn's
97
Syzygium nitidum
9
monadelpha
97
Tabern®montana Novo-Guineensis 28
Kovo-Guineensis ...
97
pentasticta
28
tristyla
97
pubescens
91
Bc®vola
13
,33
Tapeinocheilos pungens
13
Koenigii
28
, 59
Tecoraa
13
Schelhammera rnultiliora
93
Ceramensis
100
Schiz®a dichotoma
32
dcndrophila
100
h'orsteri
. . .
32
,75
leptophylla
100
Schiz®ace®
75
Tectona
33
Scitamine®
13
Tephrosia purpurea
7
Scleria
. . .
33
,83
Terminalia
59
Scolopendrium longifolium
50
Ternstr®miacc®
97
pinnatum
50
Tetrauthera
13
vulgare
49
amara
96
Scrophulariu®
90
macrophylla
96
Scyphipbora hydropliyllacca
...
10
obscura
96
Securinega Abyssinicu ...
40
Tetraplasandra ...
13
Selaginella caudata
75
paucidens ...
89
caulescens
75
Thespesia populnea
36
flabellata
75
Thymele®...
98
Tliysauauthus comosus ...
i’age
102
Tiliacese
fi, 58, 84
Tiuionins p.seu(Io-ca])itatus
26
rigidus
26
Tournefortia .
83
argentca
... 11, 59
mollis
71
sarmeiitosa
fl
Trema camiabina
40
Trevesia
13
insignis
89
Novo-Guineensis .. .
89
Tribulus terrestris
37
Trichomanes Pilicula ...
33
Triphasia
13
Tristania macrosperma
104
Tristellateia
13
Australasica
36
Triumfetta procumbens ...
59
Tnrrsea pubescens
53
Tylophora
33
cuspidata ...
100
Uncaria
90
appendiculata
10
Urena lobata
... 55
lirticese
.. 40, 60
Uvaria
33
cercifolia
42
liosenbergiana
95
Vanda Hindsii
14
Vandellia Crustacea
90
pedunculata
90
Verbenacefe
... 1 1, 90
I'a.ice
Vernonia cineren
27
Viburnum
33
Zippelii
99
Villebrunia murina
41
rliodopleura
41
rufescens . . .
41
Vinifera3 ...
... 36, 86
Viscum
13
orientale ...
99
Visiania ...
33
undulata ...
11
Yitex trifolia
11
Vitis
... 13, 83
cordata
36
diffusa
37
Papuana ...
36
pisocarpa ...
37
pubiflora . . .
37
rostrata
37
trifolia
86
Vittaria
13
elongata ...
... 33,81
scolopeudrina
81
Wedelia biflora ...
... 27. 43
Wormia
... 13,83
alata
20
castaneifolia
20
Xenophya ...
13
brancifolia
101
Xerotes Banksii ...
45
Xcrotidea3 ...
45
Zanonia
107
Zygophylleje
37
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